It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
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
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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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Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality
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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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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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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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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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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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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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