What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption: all else is reconstruction, mere technique. Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, that reveal its fissures and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will one day appear in the Messianic light.

There is no love that is not an echo.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.