black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

Gilles Deleuze

Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.
GILLES DELEUZE

Consistency Machine Point Territory Writing
My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
GILLES DELEUZE

Body Brain Eyes Images Oneself
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
GILLES DELEUZE

Creation Impossible Inspirational
The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
GILLES DELEUZE

Gate Multiple Philosophy Way
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.
GILLES DELEUZE

Element Force History Moral Ourselves Principle Revenge Thinking
belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
GILLES DELEUZE

Belief Fake Necessary Production Suffocation
It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
GILLES DELEUZE

Deep Impotent Power Vanity
Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
GILLES DELEUZE

Depend Psychology Revenge Spirit Trait
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.
GILLES DELEUZE

Form Fundamental Grammar Ignorance Law Normal Politics Sentence Social
What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
GILLES DELEUZE

Important Number Password Signature
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
GILLES DELEUZE

Capability Invention Level State Universal
The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?
GILLES DELEUZE

Better Man Reason Shame Writing
Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
GILLES DELEUZE

Art Aspect Brain Philosophy Science Subject
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.
GILLES DELEUZE

Beyond Lying Movement Oneself
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
GILLES DELEUZE

Brick Build Concept Ideas Reason Window
Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
GILLES DELEUZE

Journey Path Thinking

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Gilles Deleuze Quotes