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… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
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. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it? — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world -… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree The less he spoke the more he heard The more he heard the… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
