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.
GILLES DELEUZEThe 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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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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Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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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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Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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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 shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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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.
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It’s not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you’ll see that everything changes.
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