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

Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

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.

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

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