The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

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

Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression

Evaluations, in essence, are... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.

Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?

The law is not known, since there is nothing in it to know. We come across it only through its action, and it acts only through its sentence and its execution. It is not distinguishable from the application. We know it only through its imprint on our heart and our flesh: we are guilty, necessarily guilty. Guilt is like the moral thread which duplicates the thread of time.