My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
GILLES DELEUZEThe morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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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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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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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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.
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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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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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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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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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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A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
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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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