You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.

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

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then they cannot be forgiven. It is not the departure for pleasure that is unacceptable, it is waking up happy.

I think I have in fact been situated in most of the squares on the political checkerboard, one after another and sometimes simultaneously: as anarchist, leftist, ostentatious or disguised Marxist, nihilist, explicit or secret anti-Marxist, technocrat in the service of Gaullism, new liberal and so on.

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.

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?