And now, if we try to assign a value, in and of itself, outside its relations to the dream and with error, to classical unreason, we must understand it not as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

We are freer than we think.

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.

Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are inscribed in reality and fall under a regime of truth dividing the true and the false.

Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.