Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
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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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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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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Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality
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To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.
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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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