"The percept is the landscape before man, in……" — Gilles Deleuze

"The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man."

— Gilles Deleuze

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55 Quotes by Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze has 55 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State…
The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.
There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he…
Evaluations, in essence, are … ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary…
The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought…
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which…
What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if…
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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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More Absence Quotes

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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. — Henry Adams
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me… — Brendan Behan
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Ambrose Bierce
Life has become the ideology of its own absence. — Theodor Adorno
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent… — Elizabeth Bowen
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will… — David Bowie
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. — Jean de la Bruyere
Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like… — Bill Bryson
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. — Samuel Butler

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