Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
GILLES DELEUZEMy eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
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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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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.
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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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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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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility.
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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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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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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.
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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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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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It’s not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes.
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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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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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