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

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

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.

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

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When he’s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, he’s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology.

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