"The annals of official philosophy are populated by ‘bureaucrats of pure reason’ who speak in ‘the shadow of the despot’ and are in historical complicity with the State. They invent ‘a properly spiritual…absolute State that… effectively functions in the mind.’ Theirs is

"There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery."

"We head for the horizon, on the plane of immanence, and we return with bloodshot eyes, yet they are the eyes of the mind."

"Daca schizofrenia este universala, atunci marele artist este cu adevarat cel care sparge zidul schizofrenic, ajungand in patria necunoscuta, acolo unde el nu mai apartine niciunei epoci, niciunui mediu, niciunei scoli."

"D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind of rather repugnant artificial triangle, thereby stifling the whole of sexuality as a production of desire so as to recast

"In the literary machine that Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” constitutes, we are struck by the fact that all the parts are produced as asymmetrical sections, paths that suddenly come to an end, hermetically sealed boxes, noncommunicating vessels, watertight compartme

"Sanat sınırılarda cereyan eden bir tür deneydir."

"Cuando alguien pregunta para qué sirve la filosofía, la respuesta debe ser agresiva ya que la pregunta se tiene por irónica y mordaz. La filosofía no sirve ni al Estado ni a la Iglesia, que tienen otras preocupaciones. No sirve a ningún poder establecido. La filosofía

"The historical fact is that cinema was constituted as such by becoming narrative, by presenting a story, and by rejecting its other possible directions. The approximation which follows is that, from that point, the sequences of images and even each image, a single shot

"Making love is not just becoming as one, or even two, but becoming as a hundred thousand. Desiring-machines or the nonhuman sex: not one or even two sexes, but n sexes."

"In other terms: that God and the father never existed (or if they did, it was so long ago, perhaps during the Paleolithic). All they did was kill a dead man, from time immemorial."

"La littérature est une santé."

"I haven't got the normal protective whorls, so that touching anything, especially fabric, causes such irritation that I need long nails to protect them."

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

"The Marx-Freud parallelism between the two remains utterly sterile and insignificant as long as it is expressed in terms that make them introjections and projections of each other without ceasing to be utterly alien to each other, as in the famous equation money = shit

"The death of a social machine has never been heralded by a disharmony or a dysfunction; on the contrary, social machines make a habit of feeding on the contradictions they give rise to, on the crises they provoke, on the anxieties they engender, and on the infernal ope

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

"The various forms of education or ‘normalization’ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards a higher, nobler one in closer conformity with the supposed ideal. Then from the point of subjectification

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

"A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it."