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 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.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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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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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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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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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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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