Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
GILLES DELEUZEAs for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
More Gilles Deleuze Quotes
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The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility.
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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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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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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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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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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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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.
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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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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression.
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