Gilles Deleuze Quotes on Knowledge
Deleuze's Difference and Repetition (1968) and The Logic of Sense (1969) reorganize philosophy around the primacy of difference and the affirmation of singularities over the representational structures of identity, opposition, analogy, and resemblance through which Western philosophy from Plato onward has, on Deleuze's reading, suppressed the difference at the heart of being. The collaborative Capitalism and Schizophrenia volumes with Félix Guattari — Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980) — extend the framework into political philosophy, the philosophy of psychiatry, and the analysis of contemporary capitalism through the conceptual machinery of the rhizome, deterritorialization, and the abstract machine. The late solo works on Foucault, Bergson, Spinoza, Nietzsche, and the cinema supply the historical depth-axis.
Quotes
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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?”
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“There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.”
from Postscript on the Societies of Control -
“from Postscript on the Societies of Control”
There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons. -
“from Essays Critical and Clinical , p. 104.”
In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side — there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return. -
“from Dialogues with Claire Parnet, p. 147 [emphasis in original].”
Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general, why not think that a new type of revolution is in the course of becoming possible , and that all kinds of mutating, living machines conduct wars, are combined and trace out a plane of consistence which undermines the plane of organization of the World and the States? -
“from I have Nothing to Admit”
A book is a small cog in a much more complex, external machinery. Writing is a flow among others; it enjoys no special privilege and enters into relationships of current and counter-current, of back-wash with other flows — the flows of shit, sperm, speech, action, eroticism, money, politics, etc. Like Bloom, writing on the sand with one hand and masturbating with the other — two flows in what rela -
“Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.”
Nietzsche and Philosophy(1962) | p. 7