A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
GILLES DELEUZEIn truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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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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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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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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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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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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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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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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