A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Gilles DeleuzeIt is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
Gilles DeleuzeEvaluations, in essence, are... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
Gilles DeleuzeThe fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
Gilles DeleuzeCourage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things
Gilles Deleuze