Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
GILLES DELEUZEImages 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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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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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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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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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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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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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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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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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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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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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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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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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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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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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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Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression.
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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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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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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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