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
GILLES DELEUZEIt’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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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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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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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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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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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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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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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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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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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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