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 …

- 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

I find myself only by losing myself.

- Paul Ricoeur

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 …

- Paul Ricoeur

If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.

- Paul Ricoeur

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

There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree The less he spoke the more he heard The more he heard the less he spoke Why can't we be like that wise …

- Paul Ricoeur

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

- Paul Ricoeur

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