Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter. Gilles Deleuze More Quotes by Gilles Deleuze More Quotes From Gilles Deleuze The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities Gilles Deleuze self doors two Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love. Gilles Deleuze reading ends 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 Gilles Deleuze vanity ease thinking It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity Gilles Deleuze vanity draws depth It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality Gilles Deleuze slumber reason monsters Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside. Gilles Deleuze constant curves infinite In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side - there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return. Gilles Deleuze music powerful song The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real. Gilles Deleuze consistency metaphor real My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others? Gilles Deleuze body eye brain Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space. Gilles Deleuze shots space photography 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. Gilles Deleuze essence revenge thinking There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery. Gilles Deleuze misery democratic states Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation? Gilles Deleuze salvation fighting men I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions. Gilles Deleuze zero tasks years 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. Gilles Deleuze unity political law The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes itself and the genesis of the act of thinking in thought itself. Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter Gilles Deleuze encounters fundamentals thinking A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments. Gilles Deleuze leftists left government The various forms of education or ‘normalization’ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards a higher, nobler one in closer conformity with the supposed ideal. Then from the point of subjectification issues a subject of enunciation, as a function of a mental reality determined by that point. Then from the subject of enunciation issues a subject of the statement, in other words, a subject bound to statements in conformity with a dominant reality Gilles Deleuze issues reality moving What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like anyone else I make my inner journeys that I can only measure by my emotions, and express very obliquely and circuitously in what I write. ... Arguments from one's own privileged experience are bad and reactionary arguments. Gilles Deleuze journey writing believe The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering. Gilles Deleuze shadow body animal
