There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
GILLES DELEUZEPhotography, 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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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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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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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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Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
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The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility.
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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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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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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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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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.
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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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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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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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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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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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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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It 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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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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