Author: Paul Ricoeur

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Paul Ricoeur

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