This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom. — Paul Ricoeur
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. — Paul Ricoeur
If the resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death. — Paul Ricoeur
Narrative identity takes part in the story’s movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder. — Paul Ricoeur
So long as the new testament served to decipher the old, it was taken as an absolute norm. — Paul Ricoeur
Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it. — Paul Ricoeur
The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism. — 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
To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church — Paul Ricoeur
For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the hegelian critique with no regrets — Paul Ricoeur