All Gilles Deleuze Quotes
- 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… Capable
- The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect. Creates
- There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons. Fear
- One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose… Able
- Evaluations, in essence, are … ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate. Essence
- Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple. Break
- The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes itself and the… Act
- The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real. Abolition
- The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something… Chance
- What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like… Anyone
- A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities. Creates
- Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general, why not think that a… All
- Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all. All
- Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method. Developed
- Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter. Encounter
- Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation? Fight
- Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift. All
- A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments. Exist
- I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists. Believe
- The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point… Aim
- The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man. Absence
- The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering. Animal
- Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal? Animal
- Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come. Cartography
- The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write? Any