Being made up of distinctions, language finds it almost…

“Mimetic desire enables us to escape from the animal realm. It is responsible for the best and the worst in us, for what lowers…

— René Girard

“No culture exists within which everyone does not feel "different" from others and does not consider such "differences" to be legitimate and necessary. Far…

— René Girard

“How easily she finds the impossible in the ordinary.”

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“In the long run, the pessimism of reactionaries never proves to be justified, but neither does the optimism of revolutionaries. The expansion of human…

— René Girard

“So long as globalization was slow in coming, everyone hoped and prayed that it would come soon. The unity of the world's nations was…

— René Girard

Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts—mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge that’s generally…

— Peter Thiel

For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous…

— Jonathan Lethem

“Even in the most closed cultures men believe that they are free and open to the universal; their differential character makes the narrowest cultural…

— René Girard

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

— Maurice Sendak

To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly…

— Joan Didion

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

— Fanny Kemble

“If we want to decode our community's deep-seated fibers, we must go and see the world and explore the significant distinctions and resemblances. To…

— Erik Pevernagie

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

— Anonymous

“Product distinctions, the historic centerpiece of product marketing, exist only briefly—and in the prospects’ minds, often not at all.”

— Harry Beckwith

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the…

— Howard Staunton