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

The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.

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

Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

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.

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

The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility