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.
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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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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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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To 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.
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What 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.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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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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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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The 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.
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