The exegetical meaning (what is said about the thing) is only one element among others, and is less important than the operative use (what is done with the thing) or the positional functioning (the relationship with other things in one and the same complex), according to which the symbol is never in a one-to-one relationship with what it means, but always has a multiplicity of referents, being "always multifocal and polysemous." (181)
Tant mieux si ces livres [de Castaneda] sont l'exposé d'un syncrétisme plutôt qu'une ethnographie, et un protocole d'expérience plutôt qu'un compte rendu d'initiation. (200)
But Marx says something even more mysterious: that the true difference is not the difference between two sexes, but the difference between the human sex and the "nonhuman" sex. (294)
Nombre nombrant, meuble, autonome, directionnel, rythmique, chiffré : la machine de guerre est comme la conséquence nécessaire de l'organisation nomade (Moïse en fera l'expérience avec toutes ses conséquences). (486)