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.
GILLES DELEUZEForming 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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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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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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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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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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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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According to Beckett’s or Kafka’s law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.
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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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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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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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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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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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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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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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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Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
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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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