Firsts Quote by Gilles Deleuze

“A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.” quote by Gilles Deleuze — Download Open image

“A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.”

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“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…

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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…

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A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

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“The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.”

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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think

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Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.

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“The modulating principle of “salary according to merit” has not failed to tempt national education itself. Indeed, just as the corporation replaces the factory,…

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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 higher, nobler one in closer conformity with the supposed ideal. Then from the point of subjectification issues a subject of enunciation, as a function of a mental reality determined by that point. Then from the…

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External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself…

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A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

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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 to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there…

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Intensities are implicated multiplicities, 'implexes,' made up of relations between asymmetrical elements.

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