Jacques Lacan Quotes

But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.

Jacques Lacan

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• All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Up
  • Today

• Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Want
  • Need

• With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Book
  • You
  • Wait

• I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Identity
  • Sorry
  • Generation

• I get called all these horrible names by Lindsey Graham, who I don't even know.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Know
  • Names
  • Call

• I don't try to show off technology in my work. The technology is a means to tell stories, so I think conversations about my work can be had by very large audiences.

  

  Marco Tempest
  • Work
  • Technology

• Divorce is contagious. That's right - when you have a close couple friend split up, it increases your chances of getting a divorce by 75 percent.

  

  Jenna McCarthy
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Couple

• The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.

  

  Christian Lacroix
  • Tea

• Making independent films is liberating. It eliminates self-censorship, which mainstream films are infected with due to commercial priorities.

  

  Arfi Lamba
  • Independent

• Let there be light! said Liberty, And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Light
  • Sea
  • Sunrise

• Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • Christian
  • Feelings

• It's important for someone who's dealt with violence to be able to talk to someone, no matter who it is. So I'm vocal about how I feel. That's how I've worked through a lot of my problems.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Violence

• Being out in nature inspires me as a writer.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Nature
  • Inspire

• The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation." "I had weasels instead," said Philippa shortly. "Good God," said Lymond, looking at her. "That explains a lot.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • People
  • Education
  • Common

• Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.

  

  William Penn
  • World
  • Men
  • Virtue

• If Ernie Els were on our team, I think we'd have a better team than the European Ryder Cup team, ... Not to say if we played them we would beat them ? I think we would. But it's a stronger team.

  

  Gary Player
  • Team
  • Ernie Els
  • Ryder Cup

• One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Prove

• I love Chicago. I got on a bus and asked the driver, Do you go to the Loop? He said, No, I go beep-beep!

  

  Joey Bishop
  • Chicago
  • Driver
  • Loop

• Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • World
  • Eternity
  • Product

• Every time you reach for food, ask yourself, 'Will this cleanse or clog me?'

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Food

• Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

  

  Susan Powter
  • Know
  • Everything
  • Privilege

• But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Destroyed
  • Freud
  • Burnt