The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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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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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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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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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Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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 need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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