"The text is a limited field of possible…" — Paul Ricoeur
"The text is a limited field of possible constructions."
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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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More Constructions Quotes
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
— Francis Bacon
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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically…
— Albert Einstein
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The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The truth us that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but…
— Paul Carus
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We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and…
— David Foreman
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Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and…
— William Zinsser
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Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
— Thomas Jefferson
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We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that…
— Manuel De Landa
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World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots…
— Clifford Geertz
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That we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part…
— Paul Watzlawick
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Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes…
— Richard P. Feynman
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