René Girard

“When somebody has taken another person as a model, when the model changes their interest in, or desire for something, our The objects that we're interested in change along with them, because it was never the object that was the important thing in the first pla…”

“Mimetic desire means that a person's choice of an object is not determined by the object itself, But is fundamentally, or at least mostly determined by a third person or a third party, which is a mediator or model of desire. So there's always sort of a hidden …”

“A role model just models a role. They could model a lifestyle or a certain kind of behavior. But a role model is different than a model of desire to there, I can't think of a politician off the top of my head that is a role model for me because I don't desire …”

“Because the models that we choose, de facto, they just naturally lead us into some form of rivalry, if you think about it. You know, if I take another person as a model and begin to want what he wants I'm looking to him constantly as my model of desire to kind…”

“Literature fiction even is written by people and these people leave clues about human nature embedded in the literature, even if it's fiction. So reading fiction and mining it for truths about human nature is what Gerard did.”