“The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?”

In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.

Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.

Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.

What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.

Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.

Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.

Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: ‘OK, OK, let’s go on to something else.’ Objections have never contributed anything.

What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.

My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?

To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.

I compete only with myself, and I try to become a better human being. This is my goal.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.

If it is not to make the world better what is money for?

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

Yes, it’s important to make things great, and you can certainly do this by upgrading over time, but good and profitable is better than perfect and never done.

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.