Paul Ricoeur Quotes

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

Paul Ricoeur

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• Expenditures rise to meet income.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Meet
  • Income
  • Rise

• The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Man
  • Best
  • Doubt

• I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Kids
  • You
  • Know

• It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

  

  Ed Balls
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Think
  • Trump
  • Said

• If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

  

  Tana French
  • You
  • Need
  • Terrible

• My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Own
  • Birthday

• Johnson said that he could repeat a complete chapter of 'The Natural History of Iceland' from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus: 'There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island.' 62 Chap. lxxii.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • History

• Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. … Whenever the Westerner hears the word 'psychological,' it always sounds to him like 'only psychological.'

  

  Carl Jung

• No - we need money first.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Money

• Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Music
  • Fall
  • King

• There's a bar in Edinburgh called 'CC Bloom's.' CC Bloom is the name of the character that Bette Midler played in Beaches. That is the gayest thing I have ever heard in my entire life. That place should just be called 'Fuck-Me-In-The-Ass Bar and Grill.'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Life
  • Character

• La Fortuna, che dei pazzi ha cura.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas.

  

  Aminatta Forna
  • Good

• And I think that, given the opportunity, somebody could really learn a lot just being around me and the girls because it's really nonstop, 24/7 brainstorming and creativity and just trying to get organized and really pack a lot into a day - being there nonstop with all engines blazing.

  

  Kris Jenner
  • Trying
  • Opportunity
  • Creativity

• People will always make comparisons.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • People

• There's always been really interesting, diverse black voices talking and arguing and counterpointing.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Black
  • Interesting

• And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.

  

  Betty Hill
  • Knowledge
  • English
  • Walking

• If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.

  

  Clare Balding
  • Nature
  • Horse
  • Mirror

• I'm the best PlayStation player you'll ever see. I'll play anything. 'Call of Duty,' 'NBA2K,' 'Grand Theft Auto.'

  

  Ben Simmons
  • Player
  • Auto

• Honestly I'm excited for whatever team wants to draft me, and I'm excited to make an impact right away.

  

  Jared Goff
  • Team

• I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps - romantic fiction, in the original, traditional meaning of that term, as opposed to mimetic fiction. But most of all, I love thrillers.

  

  F. Paul Wilson
  • Book
  • Hero
  • Romantic

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

  

  Paul Ricoeur
  • Mirror
  • Spectacle
  • Mirage