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
The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told.… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
