The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
GILLES DELEUZEI believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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belief 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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Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality
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Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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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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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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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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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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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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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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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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