Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
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 philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.
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In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side – there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.
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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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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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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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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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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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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Write, 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.
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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Only 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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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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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
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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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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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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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