Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
GILLES DELEUZESomething in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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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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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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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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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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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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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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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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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.
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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.
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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.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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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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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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