A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
GILLES DELEUZEForming 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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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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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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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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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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