There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
GILLES DELEUZEThere’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
GILLES DELEUZELet 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.
GILLES DELEUZEI believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
GILLES DELEUZEOnly thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality
GILLES DELEUZESomething in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
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.
GILLES DELEUZEIs it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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 DELEUZEA tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
GILLES DELEUZEA concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
GILLES DELEUZEPhilosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
GILLES DELEUZEWhat is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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 DELEUZEIntuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
GILLES DELEUZEAs for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
GILLES DELEUZEThe percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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