Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words used in new ways, is a sure sign of a profound change in people's articulation of the world.

The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers, that is, in principle, of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.