Paul Ricoeur

“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.”

“Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.”

“Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.”

“Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.”

“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.”

“The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.”

“Testimony gives something to be interpreted.”