The flesh is at the heart of the world.

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of sexual to other motivations, impossible to label a decision or act ‘sexual’ or ‘non-sexual’ . There is no outstripping of sexuality any more than there is sexuality enclosed within itself. No one is saved and no one is totally lost.

The body is our general medium for having a world.

The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary.

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.