The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.
Paul RicoeurFor 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 RicoeurIf the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
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