The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
GILLES DELEUZEIn 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.
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
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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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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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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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 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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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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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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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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