Gilles Deleuze Quotes on Nature
Gilles Deleuze was a 20th-century French philosopher, one of the most influential figures of post-structuralist continental philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Gilles Deleuze on the topic of nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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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.”
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“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 Essays Critical and Clinical , p. 104. -
“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 Dialogues with Claire Parnet, p. 147 [emphasis in original].