Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

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.

Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

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.

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

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