Forming 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 DELEUZEThe shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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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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According 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.
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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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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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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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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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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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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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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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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