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Paul Ricoeur Quotes on Mind

Paul Ricoeur was a French philosopher and one of the great synthesizers of twentieth-century continental thought. This page collects quotes attributed to Paul Ricoeur on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Paul Ricoeur:

    “The shortest path from self to self is through the other.”

  • Attributed to Paul Ricoeur:

    “The symbol gives rise to thought.”

  • Attributed to Paul Ricoeur:

    “Every action requires a hermeneutics.”

  • “If we go back to the intention [ Marx , Nietzsche and Freud ] had in common, we find in it the decision to look upon the whole of consciousness primarily as "false" consciousness.”

    Freud and Philosophy (1970), p. 33