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
GILLES DELEUZEFar from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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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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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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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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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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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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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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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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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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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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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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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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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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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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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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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 is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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