Paul Ricoeur

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

— Paul Ricoeur

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes…

— Paul Ricoeur

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in…

— Paul Ricoeur

Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

— Paul Ricoeur

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

— Paul Ricoeur

To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as…

— Paul Ricoeur

I find myself only by losing myself.

— Paul Ricoeur

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

— Paul Ricoeur

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

— Paul Ricoeur

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

— Paul Ricoeur

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me,…

— Paul Ricoeur

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

— Paul Ricoeur

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

— Paul Ricoeur

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

— Paul Ricoeur