A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
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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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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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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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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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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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.
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According to Beckett’s or Kafka’s law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.
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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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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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