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?
GILLES DELEUZEThe morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
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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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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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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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
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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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A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
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