In 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 DELEUZEWhat is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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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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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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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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