The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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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What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.
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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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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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 shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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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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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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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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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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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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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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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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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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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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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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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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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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