black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

Gilles Deleuze

Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
GILLES DELEUZE

Drugs Ghost Power Turn
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.
GILLES DELEUZE

Consistency Machine Point Territory Writing
The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
GILLES DELEUZE

Custom Laws Man Moral Production Spirit
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.
GILLES DELEUZE

Abstract Man Movement Production Progression
Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
GILLES DELEUZE

Depend Psychology Revenge Spirit Trait
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.
GILLES DELEUZE

Contribution Myself Objection Time
What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.
GILLES DELEUZE

Combination Force Interest Operation Passage Space
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.
GILLES DELEUZE

Creation Existence Extraordinary Subject
A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
GILLES DELEUZE

Existence Government
belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
GILLES DELEUZE

Belief Fake Necessary Production Suffocation
Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
GILLES DELEUZE

Drift Lying Reason
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.
GILLES DELEUZE

Element Force History Moral Ourselves Principle Revenge Thinking
My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
GILLES DELEUZE

Body Brain Eyes Images Oneself
The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
GILLES DELEUZE

Creation Himself Philosophy Reflection
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
GILLES DELEUZE

Alone Devil God Walk
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
GILLES DELEUZE

Animal Oneself Voice

Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Gilles Deleuze Quotes