134 Quotes by Gilles Deleuze

The virtual is opposed not to the real but to the actual. The virtual is fully real in so far as it is virtual.

Academics' lives are seldom interesting.

I have always felt that I am an empiricist, that is, a pluralist.

The eye binds light, is itself a bound light. This binding is a reproductive synthesis, a Habitus.

An exhausted man is much more than a weary man. Does he exhaust the possible because he is himself exhausted, or is he exhausted because he has exhausted the possible? He exhausts himself by exhausting the possible, and inversely.

The speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as Naturalism, science and pleasure, coincide on this point: it is always a matter of denouncing the illusion, the false infinite, the infinity of religion and all of the theologico-erotic-oneiric myths in which it is expressed.

When someone asks 'what's the use of philosophy?' the reply must be aggressive, since the question tries to be ironic and caustic. Philosophy does not serve the State or the Church, who have other concerns. It serves no established power.

What we should in fact do, is stop allowing philosophers to reflect 'on' things. The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.