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.
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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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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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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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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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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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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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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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