The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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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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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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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 plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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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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The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility.
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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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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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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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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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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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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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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