The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.