KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Paul Ricoeur Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Paul Ricoeur

Showing 21-27 of 27 Quotes by Paul Ricoeur

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.

~Paul Ricoeur

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Paul Ricoeur

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Paul Ricoeur

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Paul Ricoeur

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Paul Ricoeur

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Paul Ricoeur

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

~Paul Ricoeur

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 27th, 1913

Died: May 20th, 2005

Links

Find Paul Ricoeur on Amazon

Related Authors

Albert Camus
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Michel De Montaigne
Charles De Montesquieu
Blaise Pascal
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone Weil

Popular Authors

Langston Hughes Andrew Jackson Franz Kafka Robert E. Lee Abraham Lincoln Yoko Ono Satchel Paige Sophocles

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt

1775 - Walter Savage Landor

1781 - Adelbert Von Chamisso

1846 - F. H. Bradley

1866 - Gelett Burgess

1909 - Saul Alinsky

1912 - Francis Schaeffer

1912 - Barbara Tuchman

1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman

1919 - Fred Korematsu

Birthdays on January 30th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Computers Courage Diet Funny History Parenting Respect Teacher