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.
GILLES DELEUZELet us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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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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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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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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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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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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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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