The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
GILLES DELEUZEThere’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
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Let 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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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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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
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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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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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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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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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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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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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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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