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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.

Gilles Deleuze

Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Evaluation Existence Judgment Mode
What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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Important Number Password Signature
I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Believe Philosophy Special
The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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Custom Laws Man Moral Production Spirit
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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Combination Force Interest Operation Passage Space
Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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Drift Lying Reason
The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Creation Himself Philosophy Reflection
A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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Existence Government
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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Court Notion Recognition Responsibility Room
Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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Journey Path Thinking
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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Change Direction Easy Right See Sight Yourself
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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Body Brain Eyes Images Oneself
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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Capability Invention Level State Universal
The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Better Man Reason Shame Writing
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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Alone Devil God Walk
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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Aim Criticism Different End Justification Man Reason Sensibility Way

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