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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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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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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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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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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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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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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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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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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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.
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