“Philosophy is the theory of multiplicities, each of which is composed of actual and virtual elements. Purely actual objects do not exist.… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The use of philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy which saddens no one, that annoys no one, is not a philosophy. It… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as Naturalism, science and pleasure, coincide on this point: it is always a… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“A book itself is a little machine; what is the relation (also measurable) of this literary machine to a war machine, love… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“The annals of official philosophy are populated by ‘bureaucrats of pure reason’ who speak in ‘the shadow of the despot’ and are… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“Philosophy does not serve the State or the Church, who have other concerns. It serves no established power. The use of philosophy… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
What we should in fact do, is stop allowing philosophers to reflect 'on' things. The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“State philosophy reposes on a double identity: of the thinking subject, and of the concepts it creates and to which it lends… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
When someone asks 'what's the use of philosophy?' the reply must be aggressive, since the question tries to be ironic and caustic.… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is the theory of multiplicities, each of which is composed of actual and virtual elements. Purely actual objects do not exist. Every actual… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.” — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
“The modulating principle of “salary according to merit” has not failed to tempt national education itself. Indeed, just as the corporation replaces the factory,… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The various forms of education or ‘normalization’ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Intensities are implicated multiplicities, 'implexes,' made up of relations between asymmetrical elements. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
