Paul Ricoeur Quotes
The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.
Paul Ricoeur
Quotes to Explore
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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
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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
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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
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La Fortuna, che dei pazzi ha cura.
Ludovico Ariosto
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A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas.
Aminatta Forna
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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
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If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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History is important but... I just wanna sing Beyonce songs all day long in front of a mirror.
Zara Larsson
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If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror.
John Young
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A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of being entranced by the visual spectacle, and then also the very graphic forms of public mourning for exemplary citizens (taking place at the same time as the refusal to mourn the undocumented, the foreign, gay and lesbian lives lost there, for example). I am not sure that the guilt over the pleasure re-installed the good citizen.
Judith Butler
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And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal to remember anything good, the determination to ensure - if anyone falls into the mistake of making it clear they actually like you - that the next time round they change their opinion pronto. Emotional self-cannibalism, in other words, like those tessellated pictures of a person grappling with a mirror image of himself.
Alexander Masters
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The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.
Paul Ricoeur
