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Luke Burgis

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Born
in Grand Rapids, MI, The United States
November 20

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Luke Burgis is the author of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life (2021), now translated into more than 20 languages, The One and the Ninety-Nine: Forging Identity in an Age of Social Contagion (St. Martin's Press, 2026), and editor of Be Not Conformed: René Girard at the Nexus of Athens, Jerusalem, and Silicon Valley. He is Founder and Director of the Cluny Institute, where he develops programs at the intersection of philosophy, work, and human formation. Luke is a Professor of Business at The Catholic University of America, where he won the Provost's Innovation and Advancement in Teaching Award in 2025. He lives in Washington, DC and West Michigan with his wife and children, and writes regularly at read.lukeburgis.com. ...more

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Luke Burgis Writing a book is like starting a dialogue with thousands of people at the same time. Writing is only the beginning. Once something is published, it t…moreWriting a book is like starting a dialogue with thousands of people at the same time. Writing is only the beginning. Once something is published, it takes on a life of its own and begins to be woven into the lives of others. So the people that I meet and talk to as a result of my work are the best thing about being a writer. (less)
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“People don’t fight because they want different things; they fight because mimetic desire causes them to want the same things.”
― Luke Burgis, Wanting: Mimetic Desire: How to Avoid Chasing Things You Don't Truly Want
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“Girard discovered that most of what we desire is mimetic (mi-met-ik) or imitative, not intrinsic. Humans learn—through imitation—to want the same things other people want, just as they learn how to speak the same language and play by the same cultural rules. Imitation plays a far more pervasive role in our society than anyone had ever openly acknowledged.”
― Luke Burgis, Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
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“Human beings fight not because they are different, but because they are the same, and in their attempts to distinguish themselves have made themselves into enemy twins, human doubles in reciprocal violence.”
― Luke Burgis, Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
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“The life of each person can’t be understood in a snapshot, a resume, or a social media profile. We have to enter fully into the stories of each individual if we hope to know and love them as God does. He is the Author of every human life. And God is an author worth reading.”
― Luke Burgis, Unrepeatable: Cultivating the Unique Calling of Every Person
tags: author, stories, story, storytelling, vocation
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“Each person has a unique and unrepeatable vocation. If it is not discovered, embraced, and lived, it is lost to the world forever.”
― Luke Burgis, Unrepeatable: Cultivating the Unique Calling of Every Person
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