The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
GILLES DELEUZEThe 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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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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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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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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Images exist; things themselves are images… Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.
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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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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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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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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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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
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External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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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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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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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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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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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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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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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