The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
GILLES DELEUZEEvery 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.
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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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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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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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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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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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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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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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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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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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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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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