René Girard about being saints and losing weight
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"Few people want to be saints these days, but everyone is trying to lose weight."
To be honest, I could not understand the deep metaphorical meaning of the quote. I looked it up and, basically, it's about the mimetic desire, which means that we tend to want things because other people want them.
It appears that the quote is from René Girard's book "Le Bouc émissaire," which was published in French in 1982. I am not certain about this, though, because I couldn't find any concrete source on it.
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