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.
GILLES DELEUZEOnly 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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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Art 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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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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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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