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Gilles Deleuze

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
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Knowledge Truth Understand
Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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Drift Lying Reason
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
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
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
Philosophy 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.
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Abstract Active Difficult Philosophy Reflection State
The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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Gate Multiple Philosophy Way
There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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Compromise Generation Human Misery State
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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Monster Ration Reason Slumber
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
One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.
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Criticism Principle Problem True Value
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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Alone Devil God Walk
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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Contribution Myself Objection Time
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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Bear Carry Existence Freedom Live
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
The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Creation Himself Philosophy Reflection
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.
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Form Fundamental Grammar Ignorance Law Normal Politics Sentence Social
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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Consistency Machine Point Territory Writing
belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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Belief Fake Necessary Production Suffocation
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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Interior Photography Point Space
It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
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Deep Impotent Power Vanity
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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Carry Earth Freedom Music Order Return Structure
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 shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Better Man Reason Shame Writing
I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Believe Philosophy Special

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