The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.

Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.

Truth is error burned up.

Love without attachment is light.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

To be is to be vulnerable.

All currency is neurotic currency.

Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money's guest.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things - things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way to pay the price for saying or seeing things.

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage and its perpetual commemoration.

The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure never static is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction we destroy in order to make it new.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.