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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?

Gilles Deleuze

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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Criticism Principle Problem True Value
There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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Fear Hope Need Weapon
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Animal Oneself Voice
There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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Compromise Generation Human Misery State
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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Change Direction Easy Right See Sight Yourself
An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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Form History Image People Philosophy Stop Thinking
Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Fight Man Salvation Serve Stubborn
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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Art Communication Creation Reflex
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Animal Body Escape Shadow Shelter
belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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Belief Fake Necessary Production Suffocation
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Creation Impossible Inspirational
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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Abstract Active Difficult Philosophy Reflection State
External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?
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Consciousness Image Movement Myself Transmit
I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Believe Philosophy Special
Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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Creation Potential World
The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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Gate Multiple Philosophy Way

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