Cixous The Laugh Quotes & Sayings

However deaf the ring of our love bells should strike they will eventually disperse this world's emptiness clouds. — Sorin Cerin

If the European grows accustomed not to rule, a generation and a half will be sufficient to bring the old continent, and the whole world along with it, into mortal inertia, intellectual sterility, universal barbarism. It is only the illusion of rule, and the discipline of responsibility which it entails, that can keep Western minds in tension. Science, art, technique, and all the rest live on the tonic atmosphere created by the consciousness of authority. If this is lacking, the European will gradually become degraded. Minds will no longer have the radical faith in themselves which impels them, energetic, daring, tenacious, towards the capture of great new ideas in every order of life. The European will inevitably become a day-to-day man. Incapable of creative, specialized effort, he will always be falling back on yesterday, on custom, on routine. He will turn into a commonplace, conventional, empty creature, like the Greeks of the decadence and those of the Byzantine epoch. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

The law of Love is based on abundance; we are completely filled with Love all the time, and our supply is always full and running over. When we give our Love unconditionally to others with no expectations of return, the Love within us extends, expands, and joins. So by giving our Love away we increase the Love within us and everyone gains. — Gerald Jampolsky

Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture. — Robert Crumb

And so, they went in circles through the trees and inside themselves, searching and reaching for things just beyond grasping. — Tenaya Jayne

When he overheard the boys whispering that he was a queer, he said he regarded that as a compliment since so many of the world's great men had been homosexual. Alas, I've been sentenced to a life mundane heterosexuality. I can only hope that a few of you will be more fortunate. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

If you wonder what getting and keeping the right employees has to do with getting and keeping the right customers, the answer is everything. — Fred Reichheld

Now my uncle knew many of them personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind. He used to entertain them at his house. — Marcel Proust

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it. — Piers Anthony

We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing. — Helene Cixous

To persevere is one thing, but to push on ignoring your intuition is something quite different. Self-awareness is the practice of learning the difference. — Vironika Tugaleva