Quotes from Gilles Deleuze

Academics' lives are seldom interesting.

The body of the woman is the overwhelming triumph of flesh. The woman is a concrete universal; she is a world, not an externalized world, but under the world, the warm interiority of the world, a compressed internalized world.

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

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.

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

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

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.

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

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

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

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

In many ways the Palestinians are the new Indians, the Indians of Israel.

The eye binds light, is itself a bound light. This binding is a reproductive synthesis, a Habitus.

An exhausted man is much more than a weary man. Does he exhaust the possible because he is himself exhausted, or is he exhausted because he has exhausted the possible? He exhausts himself by exhausting the possible, and inversely.

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

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

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

Intensities are implicated multiplicities, 'implexes,' made up of relations between asymmetrical elements.

Si vous êtes pris dans le rêve de l'autre; vous êtez foutus.

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.

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

Philosophy does not serve the State or the Church, who have other concerns. It serves no established power. The use of philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy that saddens no one, that annoys no one, is not a philosophy. It is useful for harming stupidity, for turning stupidity into something shameful.

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