“If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.” — Richard Kearney Copy Share Image
“Narrative is an open-ended invitation to ethical and poetical responsiveness. Storytelling invites us to become not just agents of our own lives, but narrators and readers as well. It shows us that the untold life is not worth living. There will always be someone there to say, 'tell me a story', and someone there to respond. Were this not so,… — Richard Kearney Copy Share
“If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do… — Richard Kearney Copy Share Image
“If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have… — Richard Kearney Copy Share Image
“While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.” — Richard Kearney Copy Share Image
“If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself - reminding it that its principles are not literal facts but… — Richard Kearney Copy Share Image
“Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. For one thing,… — Richard Kearney Copy Share Image
