Best Quotes by Paul Ricoeur (Top 8)

  1. I find myself only by losing myself.
  2. The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.
  7. The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.
  8. Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.