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

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.
Paul Ricoeur

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

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
Paul Ricoeur

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

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

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

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