Distinctions Quote by René Girard

“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