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.

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

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

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

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

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people give up their real riches for a cause that mutilates them; for an appearance that reifies them; for roles that wrest them from authentic life; for a time whose passage defines and confines them.