Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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.
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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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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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 shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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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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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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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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In 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.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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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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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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Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: ‘OK, OK, let’s go on to something else.’ Objections have never contributed anything.
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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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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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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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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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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