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?
GILLES DELEUZEWhat is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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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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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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According to Beckett’s or Kafka’s law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.
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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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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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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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It’s not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes.
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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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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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External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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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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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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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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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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