Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all mod….

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a ra….

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects..

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?.

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life..

Daydreaming subverts the world..

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life..

Work is the opposite of creativity..

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjec….

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little ….

Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others..

We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom..

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies..

People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. Th….

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about lov….

The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep in pea….

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work..

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself..

Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, pe….

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create..

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay..