Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
GILLES DELEUZEThe philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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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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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.
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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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