Top 13 Gilles Deleuze Quotes



A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

 

If you’re trapped in the dream of the Other, you’re fucked.

 

The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?

 

In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.

 

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

 

You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.

 

Lose your face: become capable of loving without remembering, without phantasm and without interpretation, without taking stock. Let there just be fluxes, which sometimes dry up, freeze or overflow, which sometimes combine or diverge.

 

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

 

A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

 

The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.

 

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

 

The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

 

Here all guilt ceases, for it cannot cling to such flowers as these.

 

 

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