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Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.

Gilles Deleuze

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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Art Aspect Brain Philosophy Science Subject
In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side – there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.
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Carry Earth Freedom Music Order Return Structure
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
Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Fight Man Salvation Serve Stubborn
Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Evaluation Existence Judgment Mode
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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Change Direction Easy Right See Sight Yourself
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
What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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Important Number Password Signature
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
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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Install Institution Servant Stupidity System
Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
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Art Communication Creation Reflex
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
The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Better Man Reason Shame Writing
Images exist; things themselves are images… Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.
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Act Difference Existence Image Movement Production Reaction
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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Constitution Curve Infinity
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

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