“Signs imply ways of living, possibilities of existence, they are the symptoms of an overflowing (jaillissante) or exhausted (épuisée) life. But an artist cannot be content with an exhausted life, nor with a personal life. One does not write with… — 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 surrounds itself with a cloud of virtual images. This cloud is composed of a series of more or less extensive coexisting circuits, along which the virtual images are distributed, and around which they run. These virtuals… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share
I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share
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