"The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?"
― Gilles Deleuze |
"Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything."
― Gilles Deleuze |
“The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say."
― Gilles Deleuze
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“A great writer is always like a foreigner in the language which he expresses himself, even if this is his native tongue."
― Gilles Deleuze |
“Man is no longer man enclosed, but man in debt.”
― Gilles Deleuze
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"There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons."
― Gilles Deleuze |
"There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery." ― Gilles Deleuze |
"An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking." ― Gilles Deleuze |
"Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends."
― Gilles Deleuze
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“Being exhausted is much more than being tired.”
― Gilles Deleuze |
“Many young people strangely boast of being "motivated"; they re-request apprenticeships and permanent training. It's up to them to discover what they're being made to serve, just as their elders discovered, not without difficulty, the telos of the disciplines."
― Gilles Deleuze
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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." ― Gilles Deleuze |
"The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?"
― Gilles Deleuze |
"Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression." ― Gilles Deleuze |
“Drunkenness as a triumphant irruption of the plant in us.”
― Gilles Deleuze |
“What we should in fact do, is stop allowing philosophers to reflect ‘on’ things. The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.”
― Gilles Deleuze |
“Flying anuses, speeding vaginas, there is no castration.”
― Gilles Deleuze |
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