Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
GILLES DELEUZEEvaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
GILLES DELEUZEIt’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.
GILLES DELEUZEA creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
GILLES DELEUZEEvery 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.
GILLES DELEUZESomething in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
GILLES DELEUZEEither it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
GILLES DELEUZEPhilosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
GILLES DELEUZEA leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
GILLES DELEUZEIn 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.
GILLES DELEUZEThe instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.
GILLES DELEUZEBring something incomprehensible into the world!
GILLES DELEUZEA tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
GILLES DELEUZEForming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.
GILLES DELEUZEAccording 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.
GILLES DELEUZEWhy do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
GILLES DELEUZEFar from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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