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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

Gilles Deleuze

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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Discover Fundamental Philosophy Politics Problem Salvation Stubborn
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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Bear Carry Existence Freedom Live
What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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Important Number Password Signature
Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Fight Man Salvation Serve Stubborn
The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Absence Landscape Man Perception
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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Element Force History Moral Ourselves Principle Revenge Thinking
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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Combination Force Interest Operation Passage Space
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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Constitution Curve Infinity
The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Better Man Reason Shame Writing
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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Court Notion Recognition Responsibility Room
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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Aim Criticism Different End Justification Man Reason Sensibility Way
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Creation Impossible Inspirational
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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Capability Invention Level State Universal
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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Contribution Myself Objection Time
Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
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Interior Photography Point Space
Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Evaluation Existence Judgment Mode

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