“It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.”

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.

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.

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.

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

The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?

I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.

Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.

belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.

We can always walk with them in the rain instead of just lending an umbrella.

I want to be loved so I try to be you then I realize what I see in you is in the mirror looking back at me.

Pain comes in waves, it can help us rise up but it can also knock us down.

I remind myself what I desire in another is myself undiscovered.

Life is the reason we are here love is the reason we stay.

You don’t need to pour your love on somebody else who does not even absorb it.

How lonely it feels to be next to you.

How terrifying to have my head in agreement with my heart.