Paul Ricoeur Quotes

Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

How can we live and die and never know the difference?

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

I finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die!

We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.

One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Life is wasted on the living.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet.

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

What, if as said, man is a bubble.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Human life is beyond comprehension.