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To have died once is enough. ↗

— Virgil

#enough #once

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#death #freedom #hope #resurrection #spite

It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#agreement #always #arbitrate #argue #between

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

#expresses #foundation #himself #his #limit

On 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 Ricoeur

#arise #brief #brief period #cosmic #insignificant

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#decipher #long #new #new testament #norm

Testimony gives something to be interpreted. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#interpreted #something #testimony

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#between #characterizes #commanding #concrete #encompassing

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

#character #constructing #constructs #her #his

There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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