Quote

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

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
Lying
Kafka
According
Finally
Standing
Sitting
Beyond
Dissipates
Movement
Immobility
Law
Beckett

More quotes by Gilles Deleuze

Image
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.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity
Gilles Deleuze
Image
Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think
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
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
Gilles Deleuze
Image
The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility
Gilles Deleuze
Image
The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities
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
Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor all that consists is Real.
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
Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
Evaluations, in essence, are... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
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
Image
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?
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