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Gilles Deleuze Quotes on Truth

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 truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • 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:

    “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.”

  • Attributed to Gilles Deleuze:

    “There is no ideology and never has been.”

  • Attributed to Gilles Deleuze:

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