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As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
— Gilles Deleuze
Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
— Gilles Deleuze
Drunkenness as a triumphant irruption of the plant in us.
— Gilles Deleuze
A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
— Gilles Deleuze
Belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production
— Gilles Deleuze
We head for the horizon, on the plane of immanence, and we return with bloodshot eyes, yet they are the eyes of the mind.
— Gilles Deleuze
There's no democratic state that's not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
— Gilles Deleuze
A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different dates and speeds.
— Gilles Deleuze
Philosophy is the discipline that involves creating concepts .
— Gilles Deleuze
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
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
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality.
— Gilles Deleuze
Here all guilt ceases, for it cannot cling to such flowers as these.
— Gilles Deleuze
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.
— Gilles Deleuze
The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.
— Gilles Deleuze
Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
— Gilles Deleuze
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
— Gilles Deleuze
In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
— Gilles Deleuze
The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
— Gilles Deleuze
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
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
— Gilles Deleuze
The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?
— Gilles Deleuze
What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
— Gilles Deleuze
Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think
— Gilles Deleuze
The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
— Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
— Gilles Deleuze
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
If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.
— Gilles Deleuze
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
— Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role.
— George Singleton
There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
— Gilles Deleuze
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
— Gilles Deleuze
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
The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.
— Gilles Deleuze
Every animal is fundamentally a band, a pack.
— Gilles Deleuze
Judge Schreber has sunbeams in his ass. A solar anus. And rest assured that it works.
— Gilles Deleuze
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
Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
— Gilles Deleuze
Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.
— Gilles Deleuze
Anyone who likes cats or dogs is a fool.
— Gilles Deleuze
To those who say that escaping is not courageous, we answer: what is not escape and social investment at the same time?
— Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari
Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
— Gilles Deleuze
Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
— Gilles Deleuze
The philosopher must become non-philosopher so that non-philosophy becomes the earth and people of philosophy.
— Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari
Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
— Gilles Deleuze
Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
— Gilles Deleuze
It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity
— Gilles Deleuze
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
— Gilles Deleuze
Being exhausted is much more than being tired.
— Gilles Deleuze
Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
— Gilles Deleuze
Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.
— Gilles Deleuze
Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater!
— Gilles Deleuze
An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
— Gilles Deleuze
A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
— Gilles Deleuze
Evaluations, in essence, are ... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
— Gilles Deleuze
the canvas is never empty
— Gilles Deleuze