“What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?”

I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.

I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

Visibility is a trap.

The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.

I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.

It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.

It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.

You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don’t imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.

I am becoming the people I love.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth?

Remember that you have a choice in what you see. If you choose to see a person’s darkness, you strengthen your darkness within. If you choose to see their light, you shine from the inside out.

What a sight of storm you are as a lie beside me in your deep, peaceful slumber.

What shall he fear that does not fear death.

Time is truly the great enemy. It’s not the great healer, it’s the great stealer.

Virtue is no empty echo.