You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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 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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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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The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.
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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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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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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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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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Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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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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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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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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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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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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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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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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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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