Backgrounds Quote 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…

— Paul Ricoeur

What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?

— Paul Ricoeur

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

— 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 -…

— Paul Ricoeur

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Paul Ricoeur

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

— Paul Ricoeur

There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Paul Ricoeur