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 DELEUZEEvaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side – there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.
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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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Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.
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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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Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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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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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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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
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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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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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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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