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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.

Gilles Deleuze

Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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Journey Path Thinking
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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Consistency Machine Point Territory Writing
The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility.
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Aim Criticism Different End Justification Man Reason Sensibility Way
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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Consciousness Image Movement Myself Transmit
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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Monster Ration Reason Slumber
Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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Creation Potential World
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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Discover Fundamental Philosophy Politics Problem Salvation Stubborn
Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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Development Feeling Inspirational Intuition Method Sympathy
Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
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Country Detail Map Meaning Writing
There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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Compromise Generation Human Misery State
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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Court Notion Recognition Responsibility Room
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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Contribution Myself Objection Time
Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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Depend Psychology Revenge Spirit Trait
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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Encounter Force Fundamental Recognition Thinking World
The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.
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Element Force History Moral Ourselves Principle Revenge Thinking
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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Abstract Man Movement Production Progression

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