134 Quotes by Gilles Deleuze


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    Nietzsche then speaks of the “eternal joy of becoming... that joy which includes even joy in destroying”, “The affirmation of passing away and destroying, which is the decisive feature of a Dionysian philosophy.

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    My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?

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    The masters according to Nietzsche are the untimely, those who create, who destroy in order to create, not to preserve. Nietzsche says that under the huge earth-shattering events are tiny silent events, which he likens to the creation of new worlds: there once again you see the presence of the poetic under the historical.

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    Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.

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    As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don’t recognize those notions, they’re for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.

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    A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

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    We are taught that corporations have a soul, which is the most terrifying news in the world.

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