Gilles Deleuze - Thought Quotes

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The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes itself and the genesis of the act of thinking in thought itself. Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter

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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

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Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

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The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.

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