"Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that……" — Gilles Deleuze
"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 exist in the same way as the most common object."
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55 Quotes by Gilles Deleuze
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Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State…
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The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.
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There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he…
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Evaluations, in essence, are … ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
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Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary…
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The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought…
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which…
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What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if…
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general,…
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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