Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

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

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

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.