I find myself only by losing myself. Paul Ricoeur More Quotes by Paul Ricoeur More Quotes From 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. Paul Ricoeur joining decision philosophy Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again. Paul Ricoeur desert criticism wish Testimony gives something to be interpreted. Paul Ricoeur testimony giving 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 other-worlds understanding men So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm. Paul Ricoeur new-testament taken long The dictionary contains no metaphors. Paul Ricoeur dictionary metaphor But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Paul Ricoeur myth destiny world 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 resurrection contradiction crosses This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith Paul Ricoeur hereafter atheism men 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 narrative mouths firsts This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom. Paul Ricoeur wisdom jobs book 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 ethics regret understanding 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 than more concrete law The text is a limited field of possible constructions. Paul Ricoeur limited text field possible What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it? Paul Ricoeur human changes nature world There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation. Paul Ricoeur because always problem christianity 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 legal where historical problem