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.
GILLES DELEUZEWhy do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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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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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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A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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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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Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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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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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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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