Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.

Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

The I is always in the field of the Other.

I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.

When we understand that Peace is a state of mind we understand true Peace.

The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes.

Even the good things from our pasts still only belonged in the past

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn't want stalkers.

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

I want to be honest with you: The players I played with and the coaches I had...they were directly responsible for my being here. I want you all to remember that. I always will.

One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.