It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
GILLES DELEUZEThe percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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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.
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Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
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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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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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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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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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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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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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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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Images exist; things themselves are images… Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.
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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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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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