My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
GILLES DELEUZEMy eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
GILLES DELEUZEExternal 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?
GILLES DELEUZEAccording 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.
GILLES DELEUZEAs for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
GILLES DELEUZEPhilosophy 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 DELEUZELet 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.
GILLES DELEUZEWhy do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
GILLES DELEUZEFar from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
GILLES DELEUZEBring something incomprehensible into the world!
GILLES DELEUZEPhilosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
GILLES DELEUZEThe percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
GILLES DELEUZEThere’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
GILLES DELEUZECan you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
GILLES DELEUZEPhotography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
GILLES DELEUZEI believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
GILLES DELEUZEThe morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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