Man has no individual I. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small 'I's, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, 'I'. And each time his I is different. Just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.

Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation, says 'I'.

The being of two people can differ from one another more than the being of a mineral and of an animal. This is exactly what people do not understand. And they …

One of man's important mistakes, one which must be remembered, is his illusion in regard to his I. Man such as we know him, the 'man-machine,' the man who cann…

Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.