Blue

“Although it is true that this counterthought attests to an absolute solitude, it is an extremely populous solitude, like the desert itself, a solitude already intertwined with a people to come, one that invokes and awaits that people, existing only through it, though it is not yet here.”

— Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, translated by Brian Massumi, University of Minnesota Press, 1987, p. 377.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“Nature propels the philosopher into mankind like an arrow; it takes no aim but hopes the arrow will stick somewhere. But countless times it misses and is depressed at the fact… The artist and the philosopher are evidence against the purposiveness of nature as regards the means it employs, though they are also first-rate evidence as to the wisdom of its purpose. They strike home at only a few, while they ought to strike home at everybody—and even these few are not struck with the force with which the philosopher and artist launch their shot.”

—Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Treatise on Nomadology—The War Machine, p. 377; originally: Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator, in Untimely Meditations, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 177–178. Archive.org”
― Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari

“To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.”
― Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm

“il nous change, il modifie la marche de notre vie." /
"it changes us, it alters the course of our lives.”
― André Gide, Journals 1889-1949