People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.

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.

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.