black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Gilles Deleuze

Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
GILLES DELEUZE

Depend Psychology Revenge Spirit Trait
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.
GILLES DELEUZE

Form Fundamental Grammar Ignorance Law Normal Politics Sentence Social
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
GILLES DELEUZE

Creation Impossible Inspirational
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
GILLES DELEUZE

Brick Build Concept Ideas Reason Window
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.
GILLES DELEUZE

Abstract Active Difficult Philosophy Reflection State
Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
GILLES DELEUZE

Art Communication Creation Reflex
Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
GILLES DELEUZE

Art Aspect Brain Philosophy Science Subject
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
GILLES DELEUZE

Animal Oneself Voice
Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
GILLES DELEUZE

Break Multiple Point Willing
A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
GILLES DELEUZE

Install Institution Servant Stupidity System
What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
GILLES DELEUZE

Important Number Password Signature
There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
GILLES DELEUZE

Compromise Generation Human Misery State
Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
GILLES DELEUZE

Evaluation Existence Judgment Mode
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
GILLES DELEUZE

Knowledge Truth Understand
Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
GILLES DELEUZE

Development Feeling Inspirational Intuition Method Sympathy
It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
GILLES DELEUZE

Deep Impotent Power Vanity

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Gilles Deleuze Quotes