Gilles Deleuze on consciousness
Gilles Deleuze58 quotes“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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Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze 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.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze 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.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze 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.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze 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.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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