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 DELEUZEEvaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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 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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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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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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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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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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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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