Jacques Lacan Quotes

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.

Jacques Lacan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: psychologist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: April 13, 1901 - September 9, 1981

Topics

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I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.

Jill Hennessy

LifeJourneyMomentManMindPlan

I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.

Andrew Solomon

MotherRelationshipMyselfThought

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

Andre Norton

LimitsBlindBeyondTryHimAlways

I'm lucky: I have very funny kids.

Matt Lauer

FunnyLuckyKidsVery

I couldn't imagine my life being any more successful than it is now.

Treat Williams

LifeMy LifeNowMoreSuccessful

I was super shy as a kid, and theater was a way that everything made sense to me.

Jason Ralph

MeShyWayKidEverythingSense

If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect.

Diane von Furstenberg

LifeLoveYouGoOwnExpect

Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.

Bruce Feiler

WomanReligionAmericaDomain

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.

Arthur Smith

PositiveTeacherSchoolMeDoing

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

Pope Francis

LoveGodFaithRelationshipTruth

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

Paul Valery

GreatManThoughtMaskKindHe

We know that inflation distorts economic behavior. In the 1970s, a combination of high tax rates and inflation prompted investors to flee production in favor of protection.

Nina Easton

BehaviorTaxKnowHighProtection

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