“But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.”
"When one loves, it has nothing to do with sex."
- Jacques Lacan
Love
"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?"
- Jacques Lacan
Love
"I love you, but, because inexplicably I love in you something more than you - the object petit a - I mutilate you."
- Jacques Lacan
Love
"Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it."
- Jacques Lacan
Love
"There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore, I must destroy you."
- Jacques Lacan
Self-awareness
"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."
- Archer
Philosophy
"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."
- Paine
Philosophy
"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."
- Eric Sevareid
Philosophy
"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
Philosophy
"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."
- G.K. Chesterton
Philosophy