“It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.”

Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.

belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.

Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.

The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.

The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.

Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.

Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.

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.

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.

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

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.

Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

Don’t cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Sometimes when we hear a song we breathe deeply and sigh. This reminds the prophet that the soul arises from heavenly harmony. In thinking about this, he was aware that the soul itself has something in itself of this music.

To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?” The philosopher replied without an instant’s hesitation, “I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.

Heartbreak does not have to be a meaningless experience. For many, it is a spiritual catalyst – a pathway to awakening to ones deepest desires for love, purpose and connection.

You should do whatever feels right in your deepest heart. Feel deep as consciousness, open as water, now, and feel how to live with a wide-open heart. Feel how to live as love without bondage.

Sooner or later you’ll hear what your heart has always been telling you: stop trying to be who you think you should be – become who you are.