It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
GILLES DELEUZEUnderneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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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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It’s not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes.
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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 leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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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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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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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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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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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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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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My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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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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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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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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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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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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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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 philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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