Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Paul Ricœur

Born: February 27, 1913
Died: May 20, 2005 (aged 92)
Bio: Jean Paul Gustave Ricœur was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics.
Known for:
- Time and narrative (1984)
- Oneself as another (1992)
- Freud and Philosophy (1965)
- Memory, history, forgetting (2004)
- The rule of metaphor (2003)