People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

The more stitches, the less riches.

Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.