A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side - there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.

Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.