A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Gilles DeleuzePhilosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
Gilles DeleuzeChristianity taught us to see the eye of the lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge project an image of reality, at the expense of reality itself. They talk figures and icons and signs, but fail to perceive forces and flows. They bind us to other realities, and especially the reality of power as it subjugates us. Their function is to tame, and the result is the fabrication of docile and obedient subjects.
Gilles DeleuzeAn image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
Gilles DeleuzeThe 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
Gilles Deleuze