Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality
GILLES DELEUZE
Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.
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Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality
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Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
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Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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According to Beckett’s or Kafka’s law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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