52 Quotes by Paul Ricœur

Time becomes human time to the extant that it is organized after the manner of a narrative.

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

This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith.

Myth expresses in terms of the world – that is, of the other world or the second world – the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world – that is, of the other world or the second world – the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence. Hence to demythologize is to interpret myth, that is, to relate the objective representations of the myth to the self-understanding which is both shown and concealed in it.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.