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.
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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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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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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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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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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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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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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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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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