It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
GILLES DELEUZEThe morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
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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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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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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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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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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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A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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Philosophy 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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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