The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
GILLES DELEUZEThe self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
GILLES DELEUZETo affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.
GILLES DELEUZEA concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
GILLES DELEUZEThe percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
GILLES DELEUZEThe 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.
GILLES DELEUZEIn truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
GILLES DELEUZEThe philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
GILLES DELEUZEExternal 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?
GILLES DELEUZEEvaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
GILLES DELEUZEIs it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
GILLES DELEUZEEvery 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 DELEUZEIt is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
GILLES DELEUZEUnderneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
GILLES DELEUZEWhat interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.
GILLES DELEUZEThe morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
GILLES DELEUZEFar from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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