“I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.”

The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

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.

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.

The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.

Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.

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.

Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression.

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.

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

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.

Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

The 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.

Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?

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.

I believe that for the most part, achieving success – whatever that is for you – is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.

When I look at young kids today I just don’t believe it, parents take away the Gameboy and they’re suicidal. They cannot take the pressure.

The hardest part of living the dream is believing you are.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.

We ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies – bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It’s seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It’s seeing what other people don’t see And pursuing that vision.