I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
GILLES DELEUZEThe shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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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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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
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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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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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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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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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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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
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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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