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. Paul Ricoeur Read Quote
So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm. Paul Ricoeur Read Quote
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. Paul Ricoeur Read Quote
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Paul Ricoeur Read Quote
Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one. Paul Ricoeur Read Quote
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. Paul Ricoeur Read Quote
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. Paul Ricoeur Read Quote
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. Paul Ricoeur Read Quote
