We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

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

[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

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

We are freer than we think.