Author: Paul Ricoeur

Quotes

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

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

- Paul Ricoeur

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

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

- Paul Ricoeur

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

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

- Paul Ricoeur

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.

- Paul Ricoeur

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

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

- Paul Ricoeur

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

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

- Paul Ricoeur

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.

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.

- Paul Ricoeur

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.

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 Ricoeur

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