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?
GILLES DELEUZEOne 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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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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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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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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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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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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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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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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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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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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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