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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What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
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The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
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Evaluations, in essence, are ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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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 democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
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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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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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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
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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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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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Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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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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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: ‘OK, OK, let’s go on to something else.’ Objections have never contributed anything.
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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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Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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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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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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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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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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