Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
GILLES DELEUZECan you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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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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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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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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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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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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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?
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It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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