In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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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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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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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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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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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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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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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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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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It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
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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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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