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

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

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

Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.

It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.

Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.

The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?