I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays..

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule..

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe.

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future..

Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride….

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation..

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them..

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope..

Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well..

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments..

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism..

History breaks down into images, not into stories..

The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death..

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing of genuine reminiscences. H….

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place wher….

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright..

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written..

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself..

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed..

We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector..