It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
GILLES DELEUZEIt is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
GILLES DELEUZEBring something incomprehensible into the world!
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.
GILLES DELEUZEYou never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
GILLES DELEUZEAn image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
GILLES DELEUZEWrite, 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.
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 DELEUZEPhilosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
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 DELEUZELet 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.
GILLES DELEUZEPhotography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
GILLES DELEUZEThere’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
GILLES DELEUZEPsychoanalysts 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.
GILLES DELEUZEThe shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
GILLES DELEUZEIn truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
GILLES DELEUZEA tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
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