Lacan Quote by Jacques Lacan

“Yielding to an urge or an inspiration, or submitting to an impulse or temptation, or taking advantage of an opportunity with no other warrant…

— H. Spencer Lewis

“The quest for enlightenment illustrates the paradox of desire—the fact that you must have desire to be motivated to transcend being ruled by desire.”

— Paul O'Brien

“    The contrariety of human nature is a subject that has given a surprising amount of occupation to makers of proverbs and to those moral…

— R. Austin Freeman

“I have great respect for the corrosive influence of bias, systematic distortions of thought, the power of rationalization, the guises of self-interest, and the…

— Michael Crichton

“Indeed, one of the highest pleasures is to be more or less unconscious of one’s own existence, to be absorbed in interesting sights, sounds,…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“The moral high ground proved to be one hell of an aphrodisiac...”

— Eve A. Floriste

“You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that…

— Jane Austen

“Choice—to do and think right Refusal—of temptation Yearning—to be better Repulsion—of negativity, of bad influences, of what isn’t true Preparation—for what lies ahead or…

— Ryan Holiday

“Thus, in the realm of human relationships, a different form of pleasure is experienced, a different sort of motivation is involved, and a different…

— Ayn Rand

“We judge one another by our outward actions, but in the motive underlying those actions our judgment may be widely at fault. Preoccupied by…

— The Detection Club

“The desire to be on sure ground is the relict of an authoritarian frame of mind.”

— Ernst Tugendhat

“Nevertheless, the doctrine that one can impose one’s visions and desires on the world by the force of thought alone retains a powerful appeal…

— Richard P. Rumelt