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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

One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.
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Criticism Principle Problem True Value
The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Creation Himself Philosophy Reflection
belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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Belief Fake Necessary Production Suffocation
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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Break Multiple Point Willing
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
Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Evaluation Existence Judgment Mode
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
Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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Creation Potential World
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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Constitution Curve Infinity
The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Absence Landscape Man Perception
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
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
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Animal Body Escape Shadow Shelter
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
A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
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Install Institution Servant Stupidity System
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Creation Impossible Inspirational

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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