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

Gilles Deleuze

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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Country Detail Map Meaning Writing
The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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Gate Multiple Philosophy Way
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
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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Break Multiple Point Willing
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
What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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Important Number Password Signature
A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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Existence Government
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
Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Evaluation Existence Judgment Mode
The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Absence Landscape Man Perception
Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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Drift Lying Reason
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Animal Oneself Voice
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
There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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Fear Hope Need Weapon
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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Consciousness Image Movement Myself Transmit
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

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