Paul Ricœur quotes

Paul Ricœur was a French philosopher renowned for his work in phenomenology and hermeneutics. His writings deeply influenced fields such as philosophy, theology, literary theory, and political science. He is remembered for bridging continental and analytic traditions and for his profound explorations of interpretation and meaning. Here are 35 of his quotes:

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. (Paul Ricœur)

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

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The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

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So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

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The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

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Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

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Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

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Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

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Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.

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It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.

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Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one. (Paul Ricœur)

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

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Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

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First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.

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Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

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But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

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I find myself only by losing myself.

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The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

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What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?

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The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

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The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character. (Paul Ricœur)

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

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This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

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There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.

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If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

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Paul Ricœur

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Occupation: French Philosopher
Born: February 27, 1913
Died: May 20, 2005
Quotes count: 35
Wikipedia: Paul Ricœur

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