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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?

Gilles Deleuze

Images exist; things themselves are images… Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.
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Act Difference Existence Image Movement Production Reaction
Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
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Depend Psychology Revenge Spirit Trait
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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Monster Ration Reason Slumber
Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Evaluation Existence Judgment Mode
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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Encounter Force Fundamental Recognition Thinking World
I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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Believe Philosophy Special
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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Body Brain Eyes Images Oneself
Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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Fight Man Salvation Serve Stubborn
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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Knowledge Truth Understand
Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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Journey Path Thinking
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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Element Force History Moral Ourselves Principle Revenge Thinking
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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Install Institution Servant Stupidity System
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Creation Impossible Inspirational
Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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Drugs Ghost Power Turn
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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Abstract Active Difficult Philosophy Reflection State
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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Beyond Lying Movement Oneself

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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