I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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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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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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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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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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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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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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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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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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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.
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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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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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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