The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
GILLES DELEUZEbelief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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One 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.
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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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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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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According to Beckett’s or Kafka’s law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.
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Philosophy 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.
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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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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