Philosophy Quote by Gilles Deleuze — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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.”

“Spinoza or Nietzsche are philosophers whose critical and destructive powers are without equal, but this power always springs from affirmation, from joy, from a cult of affirmation and joy, from the exigency of life against those who would mutilate and mortify life. For me, that is philosophy itself.”

“People say everybody has a book inside them, so why not make your life a great story?”

“Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making the inexplicable safe for the masses, the possibilities for real illusion-piercing insight becomes reduced. One might say that they are only available to those who dare to ride the breaking crest of direct life-altering experience.”

“Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.”

“Nothing was ordinary, since nothing had ever happened to me.”

“They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.”

“Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.”