Gilles Deleuze Quotes

As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.

Bring something incomprehensible into the world!

Drunkenness as a triumphant irruption of the plant in us.

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

Belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production

We head for the horizon, on the plane of immanence, and we return with bloodshot eyes, yet they are the eyes of the mind.

There's no democratic state that's not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different dates and speeds.

Philosophy is the discipline that involves creating concepts .

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

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.

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

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

Here all guilt ceases, for it cannot cling to such flowers as these.

It's a strange business, speaking for yourself, because it doesn't at all come with seeing yourself as an ego or a person or a subject.

The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.

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

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

In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.

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.

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

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

Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?

Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.

What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

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

Judge Schreber has sunbeams in his ass. A solar anus. And rest assured that it works.

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

Anyone who likes cats or dogs is a fool.

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

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

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.

Being exhausted is much more than being tired.

Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.

Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater!

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

Evaluations, in essence, are ... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.

the canvas is never empty

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

If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.

I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.

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

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

Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.

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

The schizophrenic delirium lays bare the material processes of the unconscious

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

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

My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?

The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

Every animal is fundamentally a band, a pack.