A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

There is no right life in the wrong one.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

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.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.