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.
GILLES DELEUZEPsychoanalysts 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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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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.
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According to Beckett’s or Kafka’s law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.
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Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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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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It’s not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes.
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Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality
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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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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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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
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