It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
GILLES DELEUZE
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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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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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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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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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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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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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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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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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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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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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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