Quotes by Gilles Deleuze

“Bring something incomprehensible into the world!”

“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.”

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

“In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.”

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

“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,...”

“Literature is the power of fiction itself: not making a claim about what the world is, but about the imagination of a possible world.”

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

“Lose your face: become capable of loving without remembering, without phantasm and without interpretation, without taking stock. Let there just be fluxes, which sometimes dry up, freeze or overflow...”

“Deleuze and Guattari have been totally misunderstood because the following has been wrenched from context: "Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for...”

“Morality consists in this for each individual: to attempt each time to extend its region of clear expression, to try to augment its amplitude, so as to produce a free act that expresses the most po...”

“Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.”

“It is not by means of a metaphor that a banking or stock-market transaction, a claim, a coupon, a credit, is able to arouse people who are not necessarily bankers. And what about the effects of mon...”

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

“The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.”

“A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different dates and speeds.”

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

“Here all guilt ceases, for it cannot cling to such flowers as these.”

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