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

[John Boswell] introduction of the concept of "gay" (in the way he defines it) provides us both with a useful instrument of research and at the same time a better comprehension of how people actually conceive of themselves and their sexual behavior.

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

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.

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

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.