That which is deadly may have a sweet scent.
That which is exceptionally good is a forerunner of something bad.
The best act of generosity is that which is quickly done.
A marriage is a procession in which the cross goes first.
The chair on which a Dane is sitting is beautifully decorated.
Life is like an onion, which one peels crying.
Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water.
Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
You become like that which you own.
That which everybody guards will soon disappear.
A fable is a bridge which leads to truth.
Pain, too, comes from depths that cannot be revealed. We do not know whether those depths are in ourselves or elsewhere, in a graveyard, in a scarcely dug grave, only recently inhabited by withered flesh. This truth, which is banal enough, unravels t...
Language, the unconscious, the parents, the symbolic order: these terms in Lacan are not exactly synonymous, but they are intimately allied. They are sometimes spoken of by him as the ‘Other’ — as that which like language is always anterior to ...
The world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. The sciences have two extremes which meet. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that re...
To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses. And if we doubt the certa...
These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the forms of government as the rule of man over man—of one or the few in monarchy and oligarchy, of the best or the many in aristocracy and democracy, ...
Finally, there was the impediment of his nature. In the secret parts of his peculiar brain, those unhappy and inextricable tangles which he felt at the roots, the boy was disabled by something which we cannot explain. He could not have explained eith...
That which is good for the society is not necessarily good for the individual. That which is good for the individual is good for the society.
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
I'm not a snob about which looks are 'this season' and which are 'last season.'
