What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
GILLES DELEUZEWhy do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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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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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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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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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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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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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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Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: ‘OK, OK, let’s go on to something else.’ Objections have never contributed anything.
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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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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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