What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
GILLES DELEUZEWhat is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
GILLES DELEUZEThe philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
GILLES DELEUZEI believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
GILLES DELEUZEA tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
GILLES DELEUZEWhy do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
GILLES DELEUZEArt is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
GILLES DELEUZEA concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
GILLES DELEUZEPhilosophy 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.
GILLES DELEUZETo 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.
GILLES DELEUZEAn image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
GILLES DELEUZEOne 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.
GILLES DELEUZEOnly 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 DELEUZEWriting has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
GILLES DELEUZEYou never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
GILLES DELEUZEUnderneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
GILLES DELEUZEIntuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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