There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
GILLES DELEUZEIt is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
-
-
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.
GILLES DELEUZE -
The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
GILLES DELEUZE -
An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
GILLES DELEUZE -
Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
GILLES DELEUZE -
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.
GILLES DELEUZE -
Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
GILLES DELEUZE -
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
GILLES DELEUZE -
The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
GILLES DELEUZE -
The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
GILLES DELEUZE -
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
GILLES DELEUZE -
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
GILLES DELEUZE -
I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
GILLES DELEUZE -
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
GILLES DELEUZE -
Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
GILLES DELEUZE -
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.
GILLES DELEUZE