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.
GILLES DELEUZEThe 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.
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
-
-
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
GILLES DELEUZE -
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
GILLES DELEUZE -
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?
GILLES DELEUZE -
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
GILLES DELEUZE -
Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
GILLES DELEUZE -
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
GILLES DELEUZE -
Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
GILLES DELEUZE -
belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
GILLES DELEUZE -
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.
GILLES DELEUZE -
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
GILLES DELEUZE -
Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.
GILLES DELEUZE -
Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
GILLES DELEUZE -
A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
GILLES DELEUZE -
Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
GILLES DELEUZE -
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
GILLES DELEUZE