Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression.
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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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
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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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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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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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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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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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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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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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