Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it, so that the power of their imagination keeps them suspended in mid-air; but as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.