52 Quotes by Paul Ricœur

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

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

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

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.

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. 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. Hence to demythologize is to interpret myth, that is, to relate the objective representations of the myth to the self-understanding which is both shown and concealed in it.

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

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

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.