134 Quotes by Gilles Deleuze

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

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.

If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.

Spinoza or Nietzsche are philosophers whose critical and destructive powers are without equal, but this power always springs from affirmation, from joy, from a cult of affirmation and joy, from the exigency of life against those who would mutilate and mortify life. For me, that is philosophy itself.

A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different dates and speeds.

Bring something incomprehensible into the world!

Maybe speech and communication have been corrupted. They're thoroughly permeated by money - and not by accident but by their very nature. We've got to hijack speech. Creating has always been something different from communicating. The key thing may be to create vacuoles on noncommunication, circuit breakers, so that we can elude control.

You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.