Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its archetype, the relation between labor and material. Today, when ideologues tend more than ever to encourage thought to be positive, they cleverly note that positivity runs precisely counter to thought, and that it takes friendly persuasion by social authority to accustom thought to positivity.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.

Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.