Philosopher Quote by Gilles Deleuze Download Open image “The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.” — Gilles Deleuze ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Philosopher Philosophy
What we should in fact do, is stop allowing philosophers to reflect 'on' things. The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The true philosopher does not demonstrate; he shows and says nothing to those who don't understand. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
It is so obvious to every reasonable being that he did not make himself, and the world in which he inhabits could as little… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. — William James Copy Share Image
A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out. — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it.” — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Since Pawlow and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic signals, it… — Jacques Loeb Copy Share Image
When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I am neither a philosopher nor a thinker, but simply follower of my own thoughts.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image