The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
GILLES DELEUZEThere’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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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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Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
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The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility.
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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.
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The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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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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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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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Images exist; things themselves are images… Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.
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Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
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