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Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.

Gilles Deleuze

A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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Existence Government
The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Creation Himself Philosophy Reflection
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Animal Oneself Voice
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Animal Body Escape Shadow Shelter
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
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
Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.
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Creation Existence Extraordinary Subject
belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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Belief Fake Necessary Production Suffocation
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
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Knowledge Truth Understand
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
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Creation Impossible Inspirational
My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
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Body Brain Eyes Images Oneself
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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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
The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Absence Landscape Man Perception

Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.

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Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.

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