The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

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.

Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.

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

It is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it; death becomes the most secret aspect of existence, the most private.