It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
GILLES DELEUZEThe 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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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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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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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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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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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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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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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Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.
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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.
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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