52 Quotes by Paul Ricœur

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.

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

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.

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

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.

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

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

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.