Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
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.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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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 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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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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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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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Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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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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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.
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