The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
GILLES DELEUZEThe shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
GILLES DELEUZEIs it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
GILLES DELEUZEIntuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
GILLES DELEUZEWhat is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
GILLES DELEUZEWhy do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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 DELEUZEThe 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.
GILLES DELEUZEEvaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
GILLES DELEUZEYou never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
GILLES DELEUZEWhat interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.
GILLES DELEUZEThere’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
GILLES DELEUZEFar from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
GILLES DELEUZEPhotography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
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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