Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression.
GILLES DELEUZEPsychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression.
GILLES DELEUZEYou never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
GILLES DELEUZEThings never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
GILLES DELEUZEThe philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
GILLES DELEUZENietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
GILLES DELEUZEAs for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
GILLES DELEUZEThe shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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.
GILLES DELEUZEUnderneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
GILLES DELEUZEThe 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.
GILLES DELEUZEIntuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
GILLES DELEUZEEvery 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 DELEUZEPhilosophy 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.
GILLES DELEUZEEither it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
GILLES DELEUZEImages 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.
GILLES DELEUZESomething in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
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