“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.”

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?

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.

The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.

The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.

According to Beckett’s or Kafka’s law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.

In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side – there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.

A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.

We must bear what Heaven sends.

The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

Sometimes truth is a kind of love not many hearts can bear.

Everyone you meet teaches you something; even if they come bearing pain.

The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.