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.
GILLES DELEUZEThe fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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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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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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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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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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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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.
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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