Best Gilles Deleuze Quotes
- Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject. Art
- An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking. Been
- Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything. Contributed
- The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight… Clearly
- The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality,… Action
- Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it… Abstract
- It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality Engenders
- Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that… Agreeing
- A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. Anarchy
- Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us… Accomplish
- Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of… Any
- The various forms of education or ‘normalization’ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards a… Always Moving
- It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity Center
- Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of… Adhere
- Christianity taught us to see the eye of the lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge project an image of reality, at the… Bind
- D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind… Along
- Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who… Abstractly
- The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities Becoming
- Bring something incomprehensible into the world! Bring
- Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to… Common
- You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies. Alone
- There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery. Compromised
- According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond… According
- In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing. Freud
- belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production Belief