René Girard Quotes

Quotations from René Girard

Current thought is the castration of meaning.

Religion has a function that goes beyond faith and the veracity of the monotheistic gift: " The prohibition of human sacrifices. The modern world has decided that the prohibition is the nonsense".

In a certain sense, science has become a new mythology, man who creates life.

Mankind is the species that can always destroy itself. Fot this reason it created religion.

Postmodern philosophy is based on the assumption that history is finished.

Today Christianity is much more realistic than the optimism of science that creates man only to kill him.

MidLife Crisis Quotes

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
George Orson Welles

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.
Jules Renard

Mid life, a time to simplify your life and enjoy living!
Catherine Pulsifer

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of somene else.
Ogden Nash

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
Agatha Christie, An Autobiography

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.
Jane E. Brody

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'
Nicholas Murray Butler

Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin Pierce Adams

There is a marked increase in the death rate between the ages of 35 to 40 for employed men, apparently as a result of this 'midlife crisis'.
Gail Sheehy

- The worst thing about a mid life crisis ?
- You are only half way through all the shit that life's gonna throw at you.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time catches up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.
Joseph Addison

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
Helen Hayes

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Daniel Defoe

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last.
C.S. Lewis

Virgil Quotes

Publius Vergilius Maro

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Grecians, even bearing gifts.

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

A snake lurks in the grass.

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.

As a twig is bent the tree inclines.

They can do all because they think they can.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Death's brother, Sleep.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

Audentes fortuna iuvat Fortune favours the brave.

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

Trust one who has gone through it.

In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene.

Look with favour upon a bold beginning.

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art. They can conquer who believe they can.