A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
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 shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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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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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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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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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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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Only 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
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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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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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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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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.
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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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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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Let 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.
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Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
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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.
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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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It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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