You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.

The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribed there his dream of permanent revolution. This dream, therefore, is itself action, reality, and an effective menace to all established order; it renders possible what it dreams about.

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

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

Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things

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

Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything.