belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
GILLES DELEUZEbelief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
GILLES DELEUZEThe morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
GILLES DELEUZEThe philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
GILLES DELEUZEPsychoanalysts 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.
GILLES DELEUZEAn image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
GILLES DELEUZEMy eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
GILLES DELEUZEWhat is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
GILLES DELEUZEPhotography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
GILLES DELEUZEEvaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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.
GILLES DELEUZEA creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
GILLES DELEUZETo 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.
GILLES DELEUZEArt is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
GILLES DELEUZEI believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
GILLES DELEUZEImages 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.
GILLES DELEUZEIn order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side – there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.
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