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Gilles Deleuze Inspirational Quotes (36)

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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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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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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 self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities
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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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I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
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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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One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.
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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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The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor all that consists is Real.
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.
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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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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.
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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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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think
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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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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.
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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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Evaluations, in essence, are... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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