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

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others.

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

People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are.

Daydreaming subverts the world.