Paul Ricoeur Quotes

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.

For My Own Part, I Abandon The Ethics Of Duty To The Hegelian Critique With No Regrets; It Would Appear To Me, Indeed, To Have Been Correctly Characterized By Hegel As An Abstract Thought, As A Thought Of Understanding.

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.

But Myth Is Something Else Than An Explanation Of The World, Of History, And Of Destiny.

This Atheism Concerning The Gods Of Men Pertains Hereafter To Any Possible Faith

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.

This Is Perhaps The Most Profound Meaning Of The Book Of Job, The Best Example Of Wisdom.

So Long As The New Testament Served To Decipher The Old, It Was Taken As An Absolute Norm.

There Is No Shorter Path For Joining A Neutral Existential Anthropology, According To Philosophy, With The Existential Decision Before God, According To The Bible.

Although There Has Always Been A Hermeneutic Problem In Christianity, The Hermeneutic Question Today Seems To Us A New One.

Testimony Demands To Be Interpreted Because Of The Dialectic Of Meaning And Event That Traverses It

Wisdom Finds Its Literary Expression In Wisdom Literature.