Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
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 DeleuzeThe technocrat is the natural friend of the dictatorโcomputers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribed there his dream of permanent revolution. This dream, therefore, is itself action, reality, and an effective menace to all established order; it renders possible what it dreams about.
Gilles DeleuzeAs for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.
Gilles DeleuzeIn order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side - there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.
Gilles Deleuze