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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ricoeur/living-is-already-having-been-born-in-a-condition-we-have-not-chosen/)

[Paul Ricoeur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ricoeur/)

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## More by Paul Ricoeur

> [If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ricoeur/if-it-is-true-that-there-is-always-more-than-one-way-of-construing-a/)

[Paul Ricoeur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ricoeur/)

> [What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ricoeur/what-must-be-the-nature-of-the-world-if-human-beings-are-able-to/)

[Paul Ricoeur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ricoeur/)

> [Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ricoeur/although-there-has-always-been-a-hermeneutic-problem-in-christianity/)

[Paul Ricoeur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ricoeur/)

> [But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ricoeur/but-myth-is-something-else-than-an-explanation-of-the-world-of/)

[Paul Ricoeur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ricoeur/)

> [But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ricoeur/but-myth-is-something-else-than-an-explanation-of-the-world-of-2/)

[Paul Ricoeur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ricoeur/)

> [Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ricoeur/man-is-this-plural-and-collective-unity-in-which-the-unity-of/)

[Paul Ricoeur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ricoeur/)

> [There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree The less he spoke the more he heard The more he heard the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ricoeur/there-was-a-wise-old-owl-who-sat-in-a-tree-the-less-he-spoke-the-more/)

[Paul Ricoeur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ricoeur/)

> [Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ricoeur/wisdom-finds-its-literary-expression-in-wisdom-literature/)

[Paul Ricoeur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ricoeur/)

> [There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ricoeur/there-has-always-been-a-hermeneutic-problem-in-christianity-because/)

[Paul Ricoeur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ricoeur/)

> [It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ricoeur/it-is-always-possible-to-argue-against-an-interpretation-to-confront/)

[Paul Ricoeur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ricoeur/)

> [Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ricoeur/hope-insofar-as-it-is-hope-of-resurrection-is-the-living/)

[Paul Ricoeur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ricoeur/)

> [Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ricoeur/testimony-should-be-a-philosophical-problem-and-not-limited-to-legal/)

[Paul Ricoeur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ricoeur/)

> [The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ricoeur/the-narrative-constructs-the-identity-of-the-character-what-can-be/)

[Paul Ricoeur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ricoeur/)

> [Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ricoeur/narrative-identity-takes-part-in-the-story-s-movement-in-the/)

[Paul Ricoeur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ricoeur/)

> [“The dictionary contains no metaphors.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ricoeur/the-dictionary-contains-no-metaphors/)

[Paul Ricoeur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ricoeur/)

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