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 DELEUZENietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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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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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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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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