Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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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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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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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It’s not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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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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Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
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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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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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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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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.
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In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side – there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.
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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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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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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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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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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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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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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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