52 Quotes by Paul Ricœur

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

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.

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

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

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.

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

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

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

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.