In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side – there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.
GILLES DELEUZEReading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
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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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The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
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The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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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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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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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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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.
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The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
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