Images exist; things themselves are images… Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.
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 self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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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.
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A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
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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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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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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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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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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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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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?
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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