A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
GILLES DELEUZEUnderneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
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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.
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
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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.
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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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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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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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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
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