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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilles-deleuze/it-s-not-easy-to-see-things-from-the-middle-rather-than-looking-down/)

[Gilles Deleuze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilles-deleuze/)

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## More by Gilles Deleuze

> [“Philosophy is the theory of multiplicities, each of which is composed of actual and virtual elements. Purely actual objects do not exist. Every actual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilles-deleuze/philosophy-is-the-theory-of-multiplicities-each-of-which-is-composed/)

[Gilles Deleuze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilles-deleuze/)

> [I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilles-deleuze/i-have-no-admiration-for-culture-i-have-no-reserve-knowledge-no/)

[Gilles Deleuze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilles-deleuze/)

> [A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilles-deleuze/a-leftist-government-doesn-t-exist-because-being-on-the-left-has/)

[Gilles Deleuze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilles-deleuze/)

> [“The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilles-deleuze/the-best-one-can-hope-for-is-a-government-favorable-to-certain-claims/)

[Gilles Deleuze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilles-deleuze/)

> [Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilles-deleuze/things-never-pass-where-you-think-nor-along-the-paths-you-think/)

[Gilles Deleuze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilles-deleuze/)

> [ Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds \[replis\] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilles-deleuze/either-it-is-the-fold-of-the-infinite-or-the-constant-folds-replis-of/)

[Gilles Deleuze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilles-deleuze/)

> [“The modulating principle of “salary according to merit” has not failed to tempt national education itself. Indeed, just as the corporation replaces the factory,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilles-deleuze/the-modulating-principle-of-salary-according-to-merit-has-not-failed/)

[Gilles Deleuze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilles-deleuze/)

> [The various forms of education or ‘normalization’ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilles-deleuze/the-various-forms-of-education-or-normalization-imposed-upon-an/)

[Gilles Deleuze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilles-deleuze/)

> [External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilles-deleuze/external-images-act-on-me-transmit-movement-to-me-and-i-return/)

[Gilles Deleuze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilles-deleuze/)

> [A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilles-deleuze/a-concept-is-a-brick-it-can-be-used-to-build-a-courthouse-of-reason/)

[Gilles Deleuze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilles-deleuze/the-problem-is-no-longer-getting-people-to-express-themselves-but/)

[Gilles Deleuze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilles-deleuze/)

> [Intensities are implicated multiplicities, 'implexes,' made up of relations between asymmetrical elements.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilles-deleuze/intensities-are-implicated-multiplicities-implexes-made-up-of/)

[Gilles Deleuze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilles-deleuze/)

> [There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilles-deleuze/there-s-no-democratic-state-that-s-not-compromised-to-the-very-core/)

[Gilles Deleuze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilles-deleuze/)

> [Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilles-deleuze/photography-if-there-is-photography-is-already-snapped-already-shot/)

[Gilles Deleuze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilles-deleuze/)

> [The use of philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy which saddens no one, that annoys no one, is not a philosophy. It is useful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilles-deleuze/the-use-of-philosophy-is-to-sadden-a-philosophy-which-saddens-no-one/)

[Gilles Deleuze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilles-deleuze/)

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