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
  • Rise
  • Income

• 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

• 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

• I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Football
  • Player
  • Basketball

• We were high above fields, and there far, far below, was a small shadow as of a great bird tearing along the neatly marked off fields. It gave me the most tremendous shock to realize for the first time the terrific speed we were going at and that that shadow meant us - us, like a mirror! That 'bird' - it was us.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Time
  • Great
  • High

• Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Life
  • World
  • Business

• The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to...deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done. ... the mirror in which Yama seems to read your past is your own memory, and also his judgment is your own. It is you yourself who pronounce your own judgment.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mirror
  • Memory
  • Judgment

• The Ed Hardy man is confident with a strong sense of personal style. He is not afraid to be seen and take risks. He enjoys comfort and flexible style, yet he wants to stand apart from the crowd.

  

  Christian Audigier
  • Strong
  • Style

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

  

  Paul Ricoeur
  • Mirror
  • Spectacle
  • Mirage