An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general, why not… — 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
The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes… — 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
