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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

Gilles Deleuze

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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Body Brain Eyes Images Oneself
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 philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Creation Himself Philosophy Reflection
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Creation Impossible Inspirational
Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Evaluation Existence Judgment Mode
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
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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Carry Earth Freedom Music Order Return Structure
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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Abstract Man Movement Production Progression
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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Form Fundamental Grammar Ignorance Law Normal Politics Sentence Social
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Animal Oneself Voice
Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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Development Feeling Inspirational Intuition Method Sympathy
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
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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Art Communication Creation Reflex
A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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Existence Government
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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Art Aspect Brain Philosophy Science Subject
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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Abstract Active Difficult Philosophy Reflection State
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Knowledge Truth Understand
Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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Beginning End Love Reading
There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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Fear Hope Need Weapon
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
Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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Depend Psychology Revenge Spirit Trait
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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Alone Devil God Walk
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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Criticism Principle Problem True Value
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Animal Body Escape Shadow Shelter
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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Consciousness Image Movement Myself Transmit
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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Brick Build Concept Ideas Reason Window
An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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Form History Image People Philosophy Stop Thinking

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