"But myth is something else than an explanation……" — Paul Ricoeur
"But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny."
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31 Quotes by Paul Ricoeur
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The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that…
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Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the…
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Testimony gives something to be interpreted.
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Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.
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If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
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Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to…
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Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder
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The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our…
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This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith
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For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear…
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Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
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There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God,…
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of…
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires,…
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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
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Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
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Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get…
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
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