“...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.”
"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