Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.

As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.

Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things