“If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.”
“Nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s.”
“No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.”
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
“Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.”
“Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which is all the less easy to perceive in that it is everywhere and always.”
“The judges of normality are present everywhere.”
“We should try to discover who we are and refuse what we are.”
“The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior.”
“Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere.”
“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.”
“My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.”
“Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?”
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”
“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”
“The goal of all life is death.”
“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety.”