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

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.

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

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

The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.

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

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.