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  • 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.

    Wisdom   Jobs   Book  
  • I find myself only by losing myself.

    Paul Ricoeur (2016). “Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences”, p.106, Cambridge University Press
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Paul Ricoeur (2016). “Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences”, p.175, Cambridge University Press
  • The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

    Law   Finals   World  
    Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.416, A&C Black
  • So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

    Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.382, A&C Black
  • 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.

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

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

    Destiny   World   Myth  
    Paul Ricoeur (1974). “The Conflict of Interpretations”, p.391, Northwestern University Press
  • The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

    Moving   Validation   Two  
    Paul Ricoeur (2006). “From Text to Action: Essays in Hermeneutics, II”
  • 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.

    Paul Ricoeur (1976). “Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning”, p.79, TCU Press
  • If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.

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

    Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.404, A&C Black
  • Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

  • The dictionary contains no metaphors.

    Paul Ricoeur (2004). “The Rule of Metaphor: The Creation of Meaning in Language”, p.112, Routledge
  • To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

    Religious   Men   Church  
    Paul Ricoeur (1974). “The Conflict of Interpretations”, p.423, Northwestern University Press
  • 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 (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.405, A&C Black
  • 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.

  • Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

  • But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. 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. Hence to demythologize is to interpret myth, that is, to relate the objective representations of the myth to the self-understanding which is both shown and concealed in it.

    Destiny   Men   Self  
    Paul Ricoeur (1974). “The Conflict of Interpretations”, p.391, Northwestern University Press
  • Living is already having been born, in a condition we have not chosen, a situation in which we find ourselves, a quarter of the universe in which we may feel we have been thrown and are wandering, lost. And yet it is against this background that we can begin, that is to say, give a new course to things.

    Giving   May   Lost  
  • Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it

  • There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree The less he spoke the more he heard The more he heard the less he spoke Why can't we be like that wise old owl in the tree? Speech must die to serve that which is spoken.

    Wise   Tree   Owl  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.408, A&C Black
  • The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

    Mirrors   Self   Mirages  
    Paul Ricoeur, Denis Savage (2008). “Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation”, p.379, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
  • Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

    Criticism   Wish   Desert  
  • This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

    Men   Atheism   Hereafter  
  • Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

    Paul Ricoeur (1974). “The Conflict of Interpretations”, p.381, Northwestern University Press
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