Paul Ricœur

“I believe that we are henceforth incapable of returning to an order of moral life which would take the form of a simple submission to commandments or to an alien or supreme will, even if this will were represented as divine. We must accept as a positive good the critique of ethics and religion that has been undertaken by the school of suspicion. From it we have learned to understand that the commandment that gives death, not life, is a product and projection of our own weakness.”

“Beneath history, memory and forgettingBeneath memory and forgetting, life.”

“The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.”