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 DELEUZENietzsche’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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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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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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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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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Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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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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Every 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.
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