A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
GILLES DELEUZEA leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
GILLES DELEUZEWrite, 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 DELEUZEIt is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
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.
GILLES DELEUZEYou never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
GILLES DELEUZEUnderneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
GILLES DELEUZEThe plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
GILLES DELEUZEEither it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
GILLES DELEUZEWhy do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
GILLES DELEUZEPhotography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
GILLES DELEUZEA tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
GILLES DELEUZEThe morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
GILLES DELEUZEThe 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?
GILLES DELEUZEI believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
GILLES DELEUZEFar from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
GILLES DELEUZEPhilosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.
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