Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself.

To change something in the minds of people - that's the role of an intellectual.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.

If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right away. That's not my way of doing things; I don't belong to the world of people who do things that way. I insist on this difference as something essential: a whole morality is at stake; the one that concerns the search for truth and the relation to the other.