Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
The Freudian Unconscious and Ours
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho Analysis (1978)
Symposiacs, book viii. Question IX
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
The Freudian Unconscious and Ours
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho Analysis (1978)
“The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.”
Samuel Johnson book The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 47
“Knowledge is something which you can use.
Belief is something which uses you.”
Idries Shah book Reflections
Source: Reflections
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)
Context: The liar is a person who uses the valid designations, the words, in order to make something which is unreal appear to be real. He says, for example, "I am rich," when the proper designation for his condition would be "poor." He misuses fixed conventions by means of arbitrary substitutions or even reversals of names. If he does this in a selfish and moreover harmful manner, society will cease to trust him and will thereby exclude him. What men avoid by excluding the liar is not so much being defrauded as it is being harmed by means of fraud. Thus, even at this stage, what they hate is basically not deception itself, but rather the unpleasant, hated consequences of certain sorts of deception. It is in a similarly restricted sense that man now wants nothing but truth: he desires the pleasant, life-preserving consequences of truth. He is indifferent toward pure knowledge which has no consequences; toward those truths which are possibly harmful and destructive he is even hostilely inclined.
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918–1970) second president of Egypt
As quoted in [The Game of Nations, The Amorality of Power Politics, Copeland, Miles, 216, 1970, 4, Simon and Schuster]
“The center is not something which is under our control, but something that controls us.”
Karl Barth (1886–1968) Swiss Protestant theologian
This has been widely cited to Church Dogmatics, but without citations to volume or chapter, and has not been located in this form in existing translations of that work.
Disputed
“Free Speech Is Under Attack! Censorship is happening like NEVER before! Don’t let them silence us.”
Donald Trump Jr. (1977) American businessman and son of U.S. President Donald Trump
Source: 29 January 2021 tweet https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1355126188662898691 <br class="br">Context: Sign up at http:// DONJR.COM to stay connected! If I get thrown off my social platforms I’ll let you know my thoughts and where I end up!
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) French anthropologist and ethnologist
Introduction
Myth and Meaning (1978)