Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
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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Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.
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The 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.
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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.
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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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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
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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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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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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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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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