Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
GILLES DELEUZEIt 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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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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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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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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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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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 plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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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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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In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side – there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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