Gilles Deleuze Quotes

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• The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying.

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  People, Silence, Solitude

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

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  Inspirational, Freedom, Philosophy

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.13, A&C Black

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• The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities

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  Doors, Self, Two

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.275, A&C Black

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• Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

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  Lying, Delirium, Reason

  Gilles Deleuze (2004). “Desert Islands and Other Texts, 1953-1974”, Semiotext

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• A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.

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  Possibility, Creator, Impossibility

  Gilles Deleuze (1998). “Essays Critical and Clinical”, p.48, Verso

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• Bring something incomprehensible into the world!

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  Individuality, World

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• The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?

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  Philosophy, Fighting, Men

  Gilles Deleuze, FeÌl?ix Guattari (2004). “Anti-Oedipus”, p.31, A&C Black

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• There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.

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  Needs, Looks, Weapons

  "Postscript on the Societies of Control" by Gilles Deleuze in October, Volume 59 (pp. 3-7), www.jstor.org. Winter 1992.

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• Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

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  Art, Philosophy, Creative

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• Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

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  Inspiration, Feelings, Intuition

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• To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.

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  Self, Order, Voyages

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.218, A&C Black

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• Images exist; things themselves are images... Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.

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  Differences, Movement, Produce

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• Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

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  Thinking, Encounters, Fundamentals

  Gilles Deleuze (2004). “Difference and Repetition”, p.176, A&C Black

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• Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.

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  Writing, Poetry, Consistency

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.12, A&C Black

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• It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.

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  Trying, Things Change, Easy

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.25, A&C Black

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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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  Tyrants, Stupidity, Firsts

  Gilles Deleuze, Paul Patton (2004). “Difference and Repetition”, p.151, A&C Black

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

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  Devil, Lord, Walks

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

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  Thinking, Path

  Gilles Deleuze, Claire Parnet (2007). “Dialogues II”, p.4, Columbia University Press

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

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  Men, Landscape, Absence

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2014). “What Is Philosophy?”, p.169, Columbia University Press

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

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  Country, Writing, Cartography

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• Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things

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  Thinking, Vanity, Ease

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• It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

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  Vanity, Depth, Draws

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.249, A&C Black

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• The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribed there his dream of permanent revolution. This dream, therefore, is itself action, reality, and an effective menace to all established order; it renders possible what it dreams about.

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  Dream, Reality, Order

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• Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?

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  Fighting, Men, Salvation

  Gilles Deleuze, FeÌl?ix Guattari (2004). “Anti-Oedipus”, p.31, A&C Black

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• 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.

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  Law, Political, Unity

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.112, A&C Black

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