Quotes by Paul Ricœur

“The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.”

“Beneath history, memory and forgettingBeneath memory and forgetting, life.”

“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.”

“I believe that we are henceforth incapable of returning to an order of moral life which would take the form of a simple submission to commandments or to an alien or supreme will, even if this will ...”

“With guilt there arises indeed a sort of demand which can be called scrupulosity and whose ambiguous character is extremely interesting. A scrupulous consciousness is a delicate consciousness, a pr...”

“Guilt cannot, in fact, express itself, except in the indirect language of "captivity" and "infection," inherited from the two prior stages. Thus both symbols are transposed "inward" to express a fr...”