Richard Kearney

Quotes

• “Narrative is an open-ended invitation to ethical and poetical responsiveness. Storytelling invites us to become not just...”
• “If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself - reminding it that its principles are not ...”
• “If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an...”
• “Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. Fo...”
• “If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do no...”
• “While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.”