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.
GILLES DELEUZENietzsche’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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Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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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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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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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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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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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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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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