There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
GILLES DELEUZEThere’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
GILLES DELEUZEImages 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.
GILLES DELEUZESomething in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
GILLES DELEUZEIt is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
GILLES DELEUZENietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
GILLES DELEUZEPhotography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
GILLES DELEUZEThe self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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 DELEUZEA tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
GILLES DELEUZEThe philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
GILLES DELEUZEA creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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 DELEUZEbelief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
GILLES DELEUZEThe shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
GILLES DELEUZEFar from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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.
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