Paul Ricoeur Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“Testimony gives something to be interpreted.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.”