Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
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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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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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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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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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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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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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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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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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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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Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.
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