The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
GILLES DELEUZEEvery 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.
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
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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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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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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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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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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.
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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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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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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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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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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