Jacques Lacan
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What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe? JACQUES LACAN But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a gener... JACQUES LACAN Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people w... JACQUES LACAN Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious ins... JACQUES LACAN The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be ... JACQUES LACAN As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along ... JACQUES LACAN Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in ... JACQUES LACAN Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity... 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It is a lie. 
Faithfulness in Christian marriage entails that: great mortification. For a Christian man there is n... 
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. 
And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathe... 
You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recog... 
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will al... 
The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give u... 
I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah,... 
Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if... 
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. 
And so we see the paradox that evolution has handed us. If man is the only animal whose consciousnes... 
The Love that dare not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a y... 
Life is a re-discovery. 
Life Is a Misconception. 
I'm not an Emontional, but how???
Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and res... 
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence 
What is beauty? why do we admire it? why do we endeavor to create it? [...]
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri... 
The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... 
Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken
him a great deal of pains to becom... 
God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absen... 
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri... 
It is not enough to have a body to be qualified as a man. Animals too have bodies and we don’t cal... 
These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i... 
Don’t let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust ... 
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i... 
It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. 
You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... 
For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... 
No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God! 
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the ... 
All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object. Among them all, man alone is ... 
All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunde... 
A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears ... 
Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child. 
It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, hi... 
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions. 
Earthly nature may be parsimonious, but the human mind is prodigal, itself an anomaly that in its we... 
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... 
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be... 
A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets ... 
As far as I'm concerned, attraction, in its most rudimentary form, comes from the way a person n... 
Man had such impenetrable means to stop the outside world from coming in, and so little to stop our ... 
It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly r... 
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, ... 
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, ... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with ... 
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature 
would seem as though language is the only predestination of man, and that he is created to bring it ... 
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. 
Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. 
Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally com... 
What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which ... 
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when... 
It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie F... 
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. 
However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies b... 
However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should the... 
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. 
Lacan, as we have seen in our discussion of Freud, regards the unconscious as structured like a lang... 
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have n... 
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such... 
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him... 
I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would b... 
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. 
Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have... 
In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that t... 
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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool... 
Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of jo... 
I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... 
We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qua... 
Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face. 
The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was ... 
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their q... 
Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit ... 
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. 
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences. 
Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends. 
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to unde... 
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. 
We see societies establishing themselves, nations forming themselves, which in turn dominate over ot... 
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. 
How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people bo... 
God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality. 
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprisi... 
Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my o... 
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social... 
For everyday, we like Beaujolais, Grenache or Syrah, and we like a lot of it! It's a family trad... 
When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no ... 
I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothin... 
Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt demo... 
marmfloxes 
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical... 
The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judg... 
I am putting an artist within the reach of wallets in all legality, and I am extending his fame. 
For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence... 