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

It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality

Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?

Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?

The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility.

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 purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Total absence of humor makes life a total drudgery.

In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.

Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them.