Quote

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.

Gilles Deleuze

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gilles Deleuze
Age: 70 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 18
Died: 1995
Died: November 4
Art Theorist
Historian
Journalist
Philosopher
Philosophy Historian
University Teacher
Writer
Deleuze
Zhilʹ Delëz
G. Deleuze
Difficult
Internal
States
External
Abstract
Reflection
Domains
Active
Alliance
Neither
Alliances
Philosophy
Domain
State
Internals

More quotes by Gilles Deleuze

Image
Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
Gilles Deleuze
Image
The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?
Gilles Deleuze
Image
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.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
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
Image
Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think
Gilles Deleuze
Image
The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
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.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
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
Image
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.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
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
Image
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.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
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
Image
A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor all that consists is Real.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
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 Deleuze
Image
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
Gilles Deleuze
Image
What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
Gilles Deleuze