Jacques Lacan Quotes

Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you want to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

All our scientific progress is like an axe in the hands of a madman.

It was my father who - after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car using a 'borrowed' key and knocked down a wall of the garage - convinced me over the telephone not to run away from home and who then came home from work not to punish me but rather to console and comfort me.

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.

Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.

If only Uncle Monty knew what we know," Violet said, "and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn't know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn't know what we know." "I know," Klause said. "I know you know," Violet said

Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed.

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains...

Not all of us know what we are. Some of us die without ever knowing. Some of us know, and never get caught. But we're out there. Trust me.

A man is hid under his tongue.

But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy.” “Already crazy about you, Sage.

Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".

They are playing above the ground.

It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

I have a plan-to go mad.

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.