The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
Paul RicoeurThis is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
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 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