Quotes from Gilles Deleuze

The story of the meaning of existence is a long one. Its origins are Greek, pre-Christian. As we have seen suffering was used as a way of proving the injustice of existence, but at the same time as a way of finding a higher and divine justification for it. (It is blameworthy because it suffers, but because it suffers it is atoned for and redeemed.)

Quando alguém pergunta para que serve a filosofia. Fazer enfim do pensamento algo agressivo, ativo e afirmativo. Fazer homens livres, isto é, homens que não confundam os fins da cultura com o proveito do Estado, da moral ou da religião (...).

Trascendencia, enfermedad propiamente europea.

Il est bien vrai que la violence est ce qui ne parle pas, ce qui parle peu, et la sexualité, ce dont on parle peu, en principe. La pudeur n'est pas liée à un effroi biologique. Si elle l'était, elle ne se formulerait pas comme elle le fait : je redoute moins d'être touchée que vue, et vue que parlée.

Nismo ni fizi?ari, ni metafizi?ari: moramo da budemo egiptolozi. ... Ne postoje ni stvari, ni duhovi, postoje samo tela: astralna tela, biljna tela. Biologija bi bila u pravu kad bi znala da su tela sama u sebi ve? jezik.

le langage de Sade est paradoxal parce qu'il est essentiellement celui d'une victime. Il n'y a que les victimes qui peuvent décrire les tortures, les bourreaux emploient nécessairement le langage hypocrite de l'ordre et du pouvoir établis

Marxism and Freudianism are the two fundamental bureaucracies. Marx and Freud may be the dawn of our culture, but with Nietzsche, something altogether different occurs: the dawn of a counterculture.

Chez Masoch, dans sa vie comme dans son Å"uvre, il faut que les amours soient déclenchées par des lettres anonymes ou pseudonymes, et par de petites annonces ; il faut qu'elles soient réglées par des contrats qui les formalisent, qui les verbalisent ; et les choses doivent être dites, promises, annoncées, soigneusement décrites avant d'être accomplies.

Por doquier la máscara, el disfraz, lo vestido, la verdad de lo desnudo. El verdadero sujeto de la repetición es la máscara. Porque la repetición difiere por naturaleza de la representación, lo repetido no puede ser representado, sino que debe ser siempre significado, enmascarado por lo que significa, enmascarando, a su vez, lo que significa.

I haven't got the normal protective whorls, so that touching anything, especially fabric, causes such irritation that I need long nails to protect them.

Kita hanya membutuhkan sedikit keteraturan untuk melindungi diri dari chaos.

The industrial age defined as the age of insects . . . It's even worse nowadays: you can't tell in advance which stratum is going to communicate with which other, or in what direction . . . a semiotic fragment rubs shoulders with a chemical interaction, an electron crashes into a language, a black hole captures a genetic message, a crystallization produces a passion, the wasp and the orchid cross a letter . . .

Any two forces, being unequal, constitute a body as soon as they enter into a relationship.

The coils of a serpent are even more complex than the burrows of a molehill.

La majorité, c'est personne. La minorité, c'est tout le monde.

Real?, adev?rat?, este doar devenirea îns??i, blocul de devenire, nu niÈ™te termeni presupuÈ™i ficÈ™i în care s-ar transforma cel care devine. ... Devenirea-animal a omului este real? f?r? ca animalul care devine omul s? fie real. ... o devenire nu are un subiect distinct de ea îns??i... (Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari)

Mucho más importante que el pensamiento es <>; mucho más importante que el filósofo, el poeta.

Les évaluations, rapportées à leur élément, ne sont pas des valeurs, mais des manières d'être, des modes d'existence de ceux qui jugent et évaluent.

Mucho más importante que el pensamiento es lo que da que pensar; mucho más importante que el filósofo, el poeta.

A single and the same voice for the whole thousand-voiced multiple, a single and the same ocean for all the drops, a single clamor of being for all beings: on condition that each being, each drop, and each voice has reached the state of excess - in other words, the difference which displaces and disguises them and, in turning upon its mobile cusp, causes them to return.

La littérature est une santé.

The death of God has as many meanings as there are forces capable of seizing Christ and making him die; but we are still waiting for the forces or the power which will carry this death to its highest point and make it into something more than an apparent and abstract death.

The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.

Plus on s'est trompé dans la vie, plus on donne de leçons.