I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
GILLES DELEUZEExternal 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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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
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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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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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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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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Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.
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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
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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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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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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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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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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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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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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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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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