The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations
A source page for quotes linked to Paul Ricoeur.
“So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.”
“The dictionary contains no metaphors.”
“If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.”
“Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.”
“The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.”
“I find myself only by losing myself.”
“The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.”
“If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.”
“Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder”
“This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith”
“Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.”
“But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.”
“This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.”