Quotes from Paul Ricoeur

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

The philosopher has a duty,... in reading scientific texts, to combine semantic tolerance with semantic criticism—to accept in practice what he denounces as a matter of principle, namely, the confusions that result from illegitimately converting correlations into identifications.

By it's mimetic intention, the world of fiction leads us to the heart of the real world of action.

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

la vida (lo natural) no quiere todo; la palabra "todo" no tiene sentido para la vida, sino para el espíritu: el espíritu es el que quiere el "todo", el que piensa el "todo" y el que sólo descansaría en el "todo".