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.
GILLES DELEUZEI believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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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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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility.
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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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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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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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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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