Quote

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

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
Morality
Laws
Produce
Law
Spirit
Men
Emancipated
Produces
Customs

More quotes by Gilles Deleuze

Image
There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities
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
Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
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
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
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
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
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
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
A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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 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
Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
Gilles Deleuze
Image
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor all that consists is Real.
Gilles Deleuze
Image
Evaluations, in essence, are... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
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