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

Gilles Deleuze

The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Consistency Plane Reality
The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Creation Himself Philosophy Reflection
Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Evaluation Existence Judgment Mode
There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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Compromise Generation Human Misery State
Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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Depend Psychology Revenge Spirit Trait
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Knowledge Truth Understand
I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Believe Philosophy Special
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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Body Brain Eyes Images Oneself
A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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Existence Government
Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
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Constitution Curve Infinity
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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Beyond Lying Movement Oneself
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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Form Fundamental Grammar Ignorance Law Normal Politics Sentence Social
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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Aim Criticism Different End Justification Man Reason Sensibility Way
Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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Drugs Ghost Power Turn
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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Monster Ration Reason Slumber
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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Brick Build Concept Ideas Reason Window

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