Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
GILLES DELEUZEAs for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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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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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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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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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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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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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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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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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