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Paul Ricoeur Quotes
Page 2 of 2Paul Ricoeur
February 27, 1913 - May 20, 2005
Nationality: French
Category: Philosopher
Subcategory: French Philosopher
|  The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative. | | The text is a limited field of possible constructions. | | On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. | | Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it. | | It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach. | | Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence. | | Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death. |
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