“Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?”

Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.

What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.

Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.

Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.

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.

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.

My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?

To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.

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.

The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.

Anyone who hates children and animals can’t be all bad.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

If pigs had wings, they would be pigeons.

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger