There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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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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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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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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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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
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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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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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Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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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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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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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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