Paul Ricoeur

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

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

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.

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

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.

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