It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
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?
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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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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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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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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Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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