Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
GILLES DELEUZEAs for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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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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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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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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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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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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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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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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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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My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
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Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: ‘OK, OK, let’s go on to something else.’ Objections have never contributed anything.
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