Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
GILLES DELEUZEIn 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.
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
-
-
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
GILLES DELEUZE -
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.
GILLES DELEUZE -
A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
GILLES DELEUZE -
A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
GILLES DELEUZE -
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.
GILLES DELEUZE -
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
GILLES DELEUZE -
Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
GILLES DELEUZE -
Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
GILLES DELEUZE -
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?
GILLES DELEUZE -
I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
GILLES DELEUZE -
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
GILLES DELEUZE -
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.
GILLES DELEUZE -
Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
GILLES DELEUZE -
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.
GILLES DELEUZE -
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
GILLES DELEUZE