What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society

You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

Experimenting with drugs, drinking, doing this just enough to be accepted as one of the crowd, but I hated drugs, and I hated the taste of alcohol!

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.

If anyone had told me in the '60s that 20 years later we'd still be talking about whether pot was worse than this or that, I'd have said, Oh, come off it, boys.

You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.

The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.