"Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality."

“The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.”

“Is this what it's like to get close to other people--you do something insane together and then you have to share everything even if you don't really want to?”

“What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilisation is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilisation millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque”

“There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.”

Source : Dana Reinhardt (2011). “The Summer I Learned to Fly”, p.215, Wendy Lamb Books

“Popular women use positive, optimistic language in their online profiles, not buzzwords like "future thinker". Here are the ten most often used words I found: easy-going, love, laugh, laid-back, optimistic, outgoing, fun, down-to-earth, pleasure, adventure.”

“Socially, the issue of men's weight is simply not a big deal.”

“We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.”

“A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.”

Source : "Course in General Linguistics" by Ferdinand de Saussure, edited by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, translated by Wade Baskin, New York : Philosophical Library, (p. 120), 1959.