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.
GILLES DELEUZEIs it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
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Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
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Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
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Write, 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.
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Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
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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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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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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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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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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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It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
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Images exist; things themselves are images… Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.
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