Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
GILLES DELEUZEFar from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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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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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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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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Images 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.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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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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Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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