“I find myself only by losing myself.”

“La fedeltà al passato non è un dato bensì un voto. Come tutti i voti può essere deluso, o tradito”

“The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.”

“The dictionary contains no metaphors.”

“But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence. Hence to demythologize is to interpret myth, that is, to relate the objective representations of the myth to the self-understanding which is both shown and concealed in it.”

“Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.”

“There is also present in every human being, in everyone's biography-although sometimes harrowing cases of systematic neglect, present in the matter of absence, so if longing for that which never was there then too, deeply suspect, should have been.”