A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
The administration of a great organized molar security has as its correlate a whole micro-management of petty fears, a permanent molecular insecurity, to the point that the motto of domestic policymakers might be: a macropolitics of society by and for the micropolitics of insecurity.
Drunkenness as a triumphant irruption of the plant in us.
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.
Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.