Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
GILLES DELEUZEArt is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
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Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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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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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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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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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.
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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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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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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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Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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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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