Gilles Deleuze Quotes
Gilles Deleuze was a 20th-century French philosopher, one of the most influential figures of post-structuralist continental philosophy. His early monographs on Hume, Bergson, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Kant, and Foucault each developed an idiosyncratic reading aimed at extracting a usable conceptual machinery from the canonical figure. The quotes below are attributed to Gilles Deleuze, organized by topic.
Gilles Deleuze on Knowledge
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Attributed to Gilles Deleuze:
“Philosophy is the art of forming, inventing, and fabricating concepts.”
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Attributed to Gilles Deleuze:
“A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different dates and speeds.”
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Attributed to Gilles Deleuze:
“How else can one write but of those things which one doesn't know, or knows badly?”
Gilles Deleuze on Mind
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Attributed to Gilles Deleuze:
“What we are saying about the schizo is true also of the artist: it is not by becoming-other that the artist creates, but by liberating the becomings within.”
Gilles Deleuze on Nature
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Attributed to Gilles Deleuze:
“Becoming is the action by which something or someone is ceaselessly becoming-other while continuing to be what they are.”
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Attributed to Gilles Deleuze:
“Multiplicity must not designate a combination of the many and the one, but rather an organisation belonging to the many as such, which has no need whatsoever of unity in order to form a system.”
Gilles Deleuze on Politics
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Attributed to Gilles Deleuze:
“We do not lack communication. On the contrary, we have too much of it. We lack creation. We lack resistance to the present.”
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Attributed to Gilles Deleuze:
“There is no ideology and never has been.”