...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing

The political and social processes by which the Western European societies were put in order are not very apparent, have been forgotten, or have become habitual. They are part of our most familiar landscape, and we don't perceive them anymore. But most of them once scandalized people.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.

Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.

At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.

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.