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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.

Gilles Deleuze

The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.
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Element Force History Moral Ourselves Principle Revenge Thinking
belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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Belief Fake Necessary Production Suffocation
Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
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Country Detail Map Meaning Writing
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Animal Body Escape Shadow Shelter
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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Creation Existence Extraordinary Subject
Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
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Art Communication Creation Reflex
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Consistency Plane Reality
I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Believe Philosophy Special
Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: ‘OK, OK, let’s go on to something else.’ Objections have never contributed anything.
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Contribution Myself Objection Time
The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Creation Himself Philosophy Reflection
It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
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Deep Impotent Power Vanity
The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Better Man Reason Shame Writing
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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Court Notion Recognition Responsibility Room
Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Fight Man Salvation Serve Stubborn
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Knowledge Truth Understand
The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Absence Landscape Man Perception

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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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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