The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
GILLES DELEUZEThere’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility.
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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A 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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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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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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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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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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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Forming 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.
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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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