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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.

Gilles Deleuze

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.
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Abstract Active Difficult Philosophy Reflection State
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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Abstract Man Movement Production Progression
Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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Journey Path Thinking
Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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Beginning End Love Reading
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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Beyond Lying Movement Oneself
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
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
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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Discover Fundamental Philosophy Politics Problem Salvation Stubborn
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
The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Better Man Reason Shame Writing
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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Criticism Principle Problem True Value
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
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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Capability Invention Level State Universal
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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Monster Ration Reason Slumber
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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Court Notion Recognition Responsibility Room
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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Encounter Force Fundamental Recognition Thinking World

Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.

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