If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
Paul RicoeurOn 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 RicoeurBut myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
Paul RicoeurLiving is already having been born, in a condition we have not chosen, a situation in which we find ourselves, a quarter of the universe in which we may feel we have been thrown and are wandering, lost. And yet it is against this background that we can begin, that is to say, give a new course to things.
Paul Ricoeur