"The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still……" — Gilles Deleuze
"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 for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?"
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Gilles Deleuze
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55 Quotes by Gilles Deleuze
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There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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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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