Gilles Deleuze Quotes on Knowledge

Quotes

• Attributed to Gilles Deleuze:

  “Philosophy is the art of forming, inventing, and fabricating concepts.”

• Attributed to Gilles Deleuze:

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

• Attributed to Gilles Deleuze:

  “How else can one write but of those things which one doesn't know, or knows badly?”

• “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