The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things. Paul Ricoeur More Quotes by Paul Ricoeur More Quotes From Paul Ricoeur 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 life-ismeaningfulworld 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 identitystoriescharacter There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree Paul Ricoeur wiseowltree If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination. Paul Ricoeur imaginationwantpeople I find myself only by losing myself. Paul Ricoeur losing-myselflosing Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other Paul Ricoeur destinydifferencesmen If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal. Paul Ricoeur different-interpretationsequalway If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death. Paul Ricoeur spiteresurrectionifs 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 umpiresagreementarguing 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. Paul Ricoeur expressionordinarymeaningful We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual Paul Ricoeur concept-of-timeindividualhistorical Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder Paul Ricoeur identitystoriesorder The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct. Paul Ricoeur finalslawworld To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization. Paul Ricoeur churchreligiousmen But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. 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. Hence to demythologize is to interpret myth, that is, to relate the objective representations of the myth to the self-understanding which is both shown and concealed in it. Paul Ricoeur destinyselfmen Living 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 lostmaygiving The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism. Paul Ricoeur validationtwomoving Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it Paul Ricoeur testimonydemandevents Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature. Paul Ricoeur wisdomliteratureexpression Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one. Paul Ricoeur good-christianproblemtoday
