"The incapacity to name is a good symptom…" — Roland Barthes
"The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance."
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122 Quotes by Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes has 122 quotes on this site.
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget…
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been…
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both…
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of…
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but…
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and…
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the…
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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an…
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious…
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More Disturbance Quotes
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To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater…
— Anatole Broyard
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Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According…
— Alice Miller
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment,…
— John Hospers
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If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about,…
— Sun Tzu
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The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can…
— George Perkins Marsh
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Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let…
— Dalai Lama
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Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of…
— Sigmund Freud
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Samadhi means when sushupti, dreamless sleep, becomes alert, awake. When you are asleep as far as the body is concerned,…
— Rajneesh
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The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in…
— Charles Lyell
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You must be a deeply anxiety-ridden person, otherwise chain-smoking is not possible; chain-smoking is a by-product. You must be so…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation means how to be not a mind. How to be not a mind! Meditation means how to create the…
— Rajneesh
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