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.
GILLES DELEUZEIntuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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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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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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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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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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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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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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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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