Philosophy Quote by Paul Ricoeur — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.”

“I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.”

“Your mind is like this water, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.”

“Consider the following sequence of cases, which we shall call the Tale of the Slave, and imagine it is about you.”

“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence which does not work according to plan, according to a one-at-a-time order of thought. Yet the concrete evidence of such an intelligence is right to hand in our own thoughtlessly ordered bodies. For the Tao does not 'know' how it produces the universe just as we do not 'know' how we construct our brains.”