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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

Gilles Deleuze

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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Art Communication Creation Reflex
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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Discover Fundamental Philosophy Politics Problem Salvation Stubborn
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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Encounter Force Fundamental Recognition Thinking World
The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Absence Landscape Man Perception
The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Creation Himself Philosophy Reflection
I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Believe Philosophy Special
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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Capability Invention Level State Universal
An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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Form History Image People Philosophy Stop Thinking
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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Act Difference Existence Image Movement Production Reaction
The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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Custom Laws Man Moral Production Spirit
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Consistency Plane Reality
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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Aim Criticism Different End Justification Man Reason Sensibility Way
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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Art Aspect Brain Philosophy Science Subject
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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Body Brain Eyes Images Oneself
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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Beyond Lying Movement Oneself
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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Change Direction Easy Right See Sight Yourself

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