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

What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like anyone else I make my inner journeys that I can only measure by my emotions, and express very obliquely and circuitously in what I write. ... Arguments from one's own privileged experience are bad and reactionary arguments.

It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality

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

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

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

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.