A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
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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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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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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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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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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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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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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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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