A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Gilles DeleuzeOnly 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
Gilles DeleuzeTo affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.
Gilles DeleuzeThe various forms of education or โnormalizationโ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards a higher, nobler one in closer conformity with the supposed ideal. Then from the point of subjectification issues a subject of enunciation, as a function of a mental reality determined by that point. Then from the subject of enunciation issues a subject of the statement, in other words, a subject bound to statements in conformity with a dominant reality
Gilles DeleuzeI have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.
Gilles Deleuze