The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
GILLES DELEUZEMy eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
-
-
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.
GILLES DELEUZE -
It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
GILLES DELEUZE -
Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
GILLES DELEUZE -
The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
GILLES DELEUZE -
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
GILLES DELEUZE -
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?
GILLES DELEUZE -
Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
GILLES DELEUZE -
The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.
GILLES DELEUZE -
Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
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.
GILLES DELEUZE -
A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
GILLES DELEUZE -
What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
GILLES DELEUZE -
Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
GILLES DELEUZE -
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
GILLES DELEUZE -
The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
GILLES DELEUZE -
Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
GILLES DELEUZE -
Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
GILLES DELEUZE -
Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
GILLES DELEUZE -
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.
GILLES DELEUZE -
Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: ‘OK, OK, let’s go on to something else.’ Objections have never contributed anything.
GILLES DELEUZE -
Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
GILLES DELEUZE -
An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
GILLES DELEUZE -
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
GILLES DELEUZE -
The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
GILLES DELEUZE -
In 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.
GILLES DELEUZE -
My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
GILLES DELEUZE