Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.

The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning.

The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.

If things were simple, word would have gotten around.

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.