What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.
GILLES DELEUZEAccording 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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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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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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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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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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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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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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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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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