What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.

— Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze Quotes

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

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

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

— Gilles Deleuze

The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.

— Gilles Deleuze

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

— Gilles Deleuze

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

— Gilles Deleuze

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

— 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

One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.

— 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

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

— Gilles Deleuze

Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression.

— Gilles Deleuze

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

What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.

— Gilles Deleuze

Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.

— Gilles Deleuze

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

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

— Gilles Deleuze

The philosopher creates, he doesn’t reflect.

— Gilles Deleuze

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

— Gilles Deleuze

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

— Gilles Deleuze
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