Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.