Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
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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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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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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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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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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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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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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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Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
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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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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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