Gilles Deleuze Quotes
30 quotes • Philosopher • Age 70
"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."
"Bring something incomprehensible into the world!"
"Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come."
"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?"
"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"
"The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?"
"The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering."
"Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater!"
"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."
"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."