What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.
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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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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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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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
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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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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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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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