The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect. Gilles Deleuze More Quotes by Gilles Deleuze More Quotes From Gilles Deleuze D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind of rather repugnant artificial triangle, thereby stifling the whole of sexuality as a production of desire so as to recast it along entirely different lines, making of it a ‘dirty little secret’, a dirty little family secret, a private theater rather than the fantastic factory of nature and production Gilles Deleuze secretdesiredirty Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of beliefs that only the very faithful could adhere to, i.e., those who believe in a security that amounts to being lost in the herd and defined in terms of common and external goals Gilles Deleuze faithfulgoalbelieve Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult. Gilles Deleuze alliancesreflectionphilosophy Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything. Gilles Deleuze objectionsgoes-onwant Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject. Gilles Deleuze brainphilosophyart In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing. Gilles Deleuze belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production Gilles Deleuze productionsbelief I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists. Gilles Deleuze i-believephilosophybelieve To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives. Gilles Deleuze contraryharnessbears Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think Gilles Deleuze paththinking An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking. Gilles Deleuze philosophypeoplethinking Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement Gilles Deleuze communicationorderthinking 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? Gilles Deleuze returnconsciousnessmovement The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law. Gilles Deleuze spiritlawmen Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple. Gilles Deleuze breakknowingmatter What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password. Gilles Deleuze signaturesimportantnumbers According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates. Gilles Deleuze sitting-downlawlying The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man. Gilles Deleuze landscapeabsencemen The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility Gilles Deleuze overcomingfeelingsmen Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general, why not think that a new type of revolution is in the course of becoming possible, and that all kinds of mutating, living machines conduct wars, are combined and trace out a plane of consistance which undermines the plane of organization of the World and the States? Gilles Deleuze organizationwarthinking
