I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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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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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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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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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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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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side – there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.
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External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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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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