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Top 30 Paul Ricoeur Quotes (2025 Update)

Paul Ricoeur Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

— Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur Quote: “I find myself only by losing myself.”

2. “I find myself only by losing myself.”

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Paul Ricoeur Quote: “Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.”

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

— Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur Quote: “If you want to change people’s obedience then you must change their imagination.”

4. “If you want to change people’s obedience then you must change their imagination.”

— Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur 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.”

6. “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

Paul Ricoeur Quote: “Time becomes human time to the extant that it is organized after the manner of a narrative.”

7. “Time becomes human time to the extant that it is organized after the manner of a narrative.”

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Paul Ricoeur Quote: “The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.”

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

— Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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Paul Ricoeur Quote: “The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.”

10. “The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.”

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Paul Ricoeur Quote: “If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.”

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

— Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur Quote: “Narrative identity takes part in the story’s movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.”

12. “Narrative identity takes part in the story’s movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.”

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Paul Ricoeur Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur Quote: “The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.”

14. “The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.”

— Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur Quote: “The dictionary contains no metaphors.”

15. “The dictionary contains no metaphors.”

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Paul Ricoeur Quote: “Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.”

16. “Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.”

— Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur Quote: “We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual.”

17. “We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual.”

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Paul Ricoeur Quote: “To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.”

18. “To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.”

— Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur Quote: “Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.”

19. “Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.”

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Paul Ricoeur Quote: “This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith.”

20. “This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith.”

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Paul Ricoeur Quote: “Testimony gives something to be interpreted.”

21. “Testimony gives something to be interpreted.”

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Paul Ricoeur 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.”

22. “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

Paul Ricoeur Quote: “This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.”

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

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Paul Ricoeur Quote: “There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.”

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

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Paul Ricoeur Quote: “Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.”

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

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Paul Ricoeur Quote: “But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.”

26. “But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.”

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Paul Ricoeur Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

— Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur 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.”

28. “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

Paul Ricoeur Quote: “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.”

29. “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.”

— Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur Quote: “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.”

30. “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.”

— Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur 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.”

31. “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

Paul Ricoeur Quote: “So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.”

32. “So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.”

— Paul Ricoeur

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