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.
GILLES DELEUZEEvaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?
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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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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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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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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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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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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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