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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.

Gilles Deleuze

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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Compromise Generation Human Misery State
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
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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Aim Criticism Different End Justification Man Reason Sensibility Way
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Animal Body Escape Shadow Shelter
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
The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Creation Himself Philosophy Reflection
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
The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Better Man Reason Shame Writing
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Consistency Plane Reality
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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Deep Impotent Power Vanity
The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.
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Element Force History Moral Ourselves Principle Revenge Thinking
Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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Drift Lying Reason
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Knowledge Truth Understand
Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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Drugs Ghost Power Turn
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Creation Impossible Inspirational
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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Act Difference Existence Image Movement Production Reaction

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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