A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
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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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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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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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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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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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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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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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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