"A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window."
― Gilles Deleuze
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"Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all."
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"The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship"
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"The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law."
― Gilles Deleuze
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"I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists."
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"Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?"
― Gilles Deleuze
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"Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift."
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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." ― Gilles Deleuze |
"Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think." ― Gilles Deleuze |
"Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges."
― Gilles Deleuze
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"Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality."
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"Evaluations, in essence, are... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate ." ― Gilles Deleuze
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"Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method." ― Gilles Deleuze |
"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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"A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments." ― Gilles Deleuze |
"Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object."
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"It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality."
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