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

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

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

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.

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

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

I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.