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Paul Ricoeur quotes: The dictionary contains no metaphors.

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

Paul Ricoeur quotes: If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

Paul Ricoeur quotes: If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.

If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.

Paul Ricoeur quotes: This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

Paul Ricoeur quotes: The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

Paul Ricoeur quotes: We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

Paul Ricoeur quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

Paul Ricoeur quotes: The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

Paul Ricoeur quotes: I find myself only by losing myself.

I find myself only by losing myself.

Paul Ricoeur quotes: So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

Paul Ricoeur quotes: 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.

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 quotes: This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

Paul Ricoeur quotes: Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

Paul Ricoeur quotes: Beneath history, memory and forgettingBeneath memory and forgetting, life.

Beneath history, memory and forgetting
Beneath memory and forgetting, life.

Paul Ricoeur quotes: Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

Paul Ricoeur quotes: What must be the nature of the world ... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?

What must be the nature of the world ... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?

Paul Ricoeur quotes: There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.

There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.

Paul Ricoeur quotes: The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

Paul Ricoeur quotes: Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.

Paul Ricoeur quotes: Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

Paul Ricoeur quotes: If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

Paul Ricoeur quotes: Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

Paul Ricoeur quotes: Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.