Quotes from Paul Ricoeur
This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith
- Paul Ricoeur
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.
- Paul Ricoeur
Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.
- 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 of the Cross and death.
- Paul Ricoeur
If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.
- Paul Ricoeur
There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.
- Paul Ricoeur
So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
- Paul Ricoeur
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.
- 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 other
- Paul Ricoeur
First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.
- 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
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.
- Paul Ricoeur