I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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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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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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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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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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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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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