Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be.

Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and ... such illumination may well come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some men and women, in their lives and their works, will kindle under almost all circumstances and shed over the time-span that was given them on earth.

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing

According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.

Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.