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.
GILLES DELEUZEIs it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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It’s not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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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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External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?
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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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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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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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To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.
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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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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 morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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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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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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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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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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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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