The ultimate condition of production is therefore the reproduction of the conditions of production

In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even when it presents itself in a reflected form.

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.

Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.

To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

If someone asks, ‘But what in the end is a philosopher?’ I would say ‘A philosopher is a human being who fights in theory.’

In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.

It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.

There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.

I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling only for my breathing.

One of the things is my process requires a lot of repetition. I can probably drive people crazy because I'm interested in playing a song twenty times in a row.

Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

In the Vatican, if you don't get something new done quickly you may not get it done at all.

Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.

I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

The Queen has been guillotined, accused of crimes beyond imagining. Last night she appeared to me in a dream, handing me her head.