It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
GILLES DELEUZEEvaluations, 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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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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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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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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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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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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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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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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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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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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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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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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Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
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