Paul Ricoeur Quotes on Time
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 time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Paul Ricoeur:
“To narrate is already to explain.”
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Attributed to Paul Ricoeur:
“Memory is the future of the past.”
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“I dislike those who present myself as a Protestant philosopher; I am a philosopher and a Protestant.”
Je suis irrité lorsqu’on me présente comme philosophe protestant, je suis philosophe et protestant. Paul Ricœur : "Je ne suis pas un philosophe protestant" (January 13, 2016) -
“The possibility of noncongruence, of discrepancy, in many ways already presupposes that individuals as well as collective entities are related to their own lives and to social reality not only in the mode of participation without distance but precisely in the mode of noncongruence. ... The presupposition here is precisely that of a social imagination, operating in both constructive and destructive ways, as both confirmation and contestation of the present situation.”
p. 3