Pierre KlossowskiThinkers

The Agent is one who only thinks and thus one who only exist as a thinking agent -on the basis of external codes of everyday signs.

The Agent is precisely that particular aspect of ourselves that is necessarily unconscious of the subterranean activity of the impulses in relation to it.

Consciousness is a tool and aspect of the total life, not, as we often presume, the standard and the condition of life that is of supreme value.

Consciousness is the making use of the fixity of language and the suppression of the fact that we are only a succession of discontinuous states in relation to the code of everyday signs.

Culture is (insofar as it is the intention to teach and learn) servitude from which the tonality and intensity of the soul must break free.

Culture is the covering over the fact of 'experimentation' -- there are forces present in the struggles, in the heart of the individual vying for master and slave.

The Death drive is a 'will' that exceeds the individual and inspires it to exceed itself, annihilate itself by rewilling itself only in the name of this insatiable power.

A Discourse is the code of everyday signs on the basis of which man can think or not think, remain silent or break his silence.

The Enemy is in all things and in each thing. It is extraordinarily complex. One who must be determined and circumscribed by thought such that thought is able to create its own space, to extend it, to breathe freely.

The Eternal recurrence is capable of relieving the individual form the weight of his own acts once and for all -we are destined to live through even more and destined to deepen and enrich the only life that it knows'.

The Eternal recurrence is the notion that we are more than individuals... we are the whole chain as well, with the tasks of all the futures of that chain.

Excess is a reproach only against those who have no right to it. It has been given a bad name by those who are not sufficiently strong to employ the passions.

Experimentation is concerned with the forces present in the heart of the individual vying for master and slave. It always involves an inventor, an experimental object, failures, successes, victims, and sacrificers.