Philosopher Lacan Quotes & Sayings

I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were opened to me. I wrestled for absent friends, for the ingathering of souls, for multitudes of poor souls, and for many that I thought were the children of God, in many distant places. I was in such an agony, for half an hour before sunset, till near dark, that I was all over wet with sweat: but yet is seemed to me that I had wasted away the day, and had done nothing. Oh!, my dear Savior did sweat blood for poor souls! — David Brainerd

The world is in the condition that it's in because the world is full of sleepwalkers. — Neale Donald Walsch

In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'. — Alain Badiou

The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me. — Lance Armstrong

Religion is the product of organizations called churches — Sunday Adelaja

God moves the player, he in turn the piece.
But what god beyond God begins the round
Of dust and time and sleep and agonies? — Jorge Luis Borges

I am thankful to all the challenges in my life for that contributed to my advancement and made me a better person. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think you might very well be the most eccentric person I've ever met. — Jandy Nelson

In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl. — Gary Cooper

Australia is breathtakingly beautiful, and I can't wait to visit again. — Joe Nichols

Cuddled up by a dragon. No, thank you. Let me off this train. "If you keep wiggling, things might get uncomfortable," he said into my ear, his voice like a caress. — Ilona Andrews

When it really comes down to it, the sense of philanthropy is born out of boredom, too much time and resources on your hands. Despite all your posturing and eloquent speeches, you would never let your manicured hands become soiled by those you claim to aid. — Tyler Chase

Effective management always means asking the right question. — Robert Heller

The story of how He created the world aroused their interests immediately, even though they received no answer to the question of why He had to do it; but they found it difficult to understand sin, or the manner of its entry into the world, for it was a complete mystery to them why the woman should have had such a passionate desire for an apple when they had no idea of the seductive properties of apples and thought they were some sort of potatoes. But less intelligible still was the flood that was caused by forty days' rain, and forty nights'. For here on the moors there were some years when it rained for two hundred days and two hundred nights, almost without fairing; but there was never any Flood. — Halldor Laxness

It is in the nature of poetry that it speaks to the heart as well as the head. — Malcolm Guite