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.

Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of beliefs that only the very faithful could adhere to, i.e., those who believe in a security that amounts to being lost in the herd and defined in terms of common and external goals

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

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.

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