134 Quotes by Gilles Deleuze

Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.

External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?

Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.

Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?

To write is to struggle and resist; to write is to become; to write is to draw a map: ‘I am a cartographer’.

What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.

It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality.

The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality.