Rene Girard Mimetic Desire Quotes

#1. I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera ... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.

Rudolf Bing

#2. More and more, it seems to me, modern individualism assumes the form of a desperate denial of the fact that, through mimetic desire, each of us seeks to impose his will upon his fellow man, whom he

Rene Girard

#3. You will seek a way to have thoughts, feeling that if you think you will have to remember. There will be things you do want to remember and others you would like, or that you will need, to forget.

Carlos Fuentes

#4. Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

Madame De Stael

#5. The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done, the last day is the only one that is not the day before another day.

Jose Saramago

#6. If you feel ashamed about your need for love & support, it's because you were made to feel this way as a child. It's not a sign of weakness to want affirmation, reassurance or someone to count on; these are natural, appropriate needs. Just make sure to be there for yourself first.

Marcia Sirota

#7. Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. People will tell you that money doesn't buy happiness. They're bloody right. It buys experiences and power and influence and that's a whole lot better than stupid happiness.

Sarah Noffke

#9. Jesus. 7For we havea great joyb and consolation in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.

Anonymous

#10. When you select a career, it not only affects you but many people who depend on your work.

Dhaval Gajera

#11. Jesus Christ, Noah, it's like you want it to be complicated. Win the girl. Then keep her. Don't let her go. Get it straight. One of us needs to get it right and, out of the two of us, you're the one who has a shot.

Katie McGarry