Quotes by Gilles Deleuze

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.

Freedom

Inspirational

Philosophy

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

Government

Left

Leftists

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

Firsts

Stupidity

Tyrants

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.

Art

Creative

Philosophy

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

Notion

Psychiatrist

Responsible

belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production

Belief

Productions

Christianity taught us to see the eye of the lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge project an image of reality, at the expense of reality itself. They talk figures and icons and signs, but fail to perceive forces and flows. They bind us to other realities, and especially the reality of power as it subjugates us. Their function is to tame, and the result is the fabrication of docile and obedient subjects.

Eye

Reality

Taught Us

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

Ease

Thinking

Vanity

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

Desire

Dirty

Secret

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

Constant

Curves

Infinite

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Animal

Art

Belief

Believe

Body

Brain

Break

Cartography

Consistency

Constant

Country

Creative

Curves

Delirium

Depth

Desire

Devil

Dirty

Draws

Dream

Ease

Essence

Eye

Faithful

Fiction

Firsts

Freedom

Goal

Goes On

Government

Infinite

Inspirational

Knowing

Law

Left

Leftists

Levels

Lord

Lying

Matter

Men

Metaphor

Music

Notion

Objections

Order

Ordinary

Path

Philosophy

Poetry

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Quotes by Gilles Deleuze

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.

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

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

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.

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

belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production

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

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