“There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.”
― Postscript on the Societies of Control
― Postscript on the Societies of Control
“Instead of linking an active life and an affirmative thinking, thought gives itself the task of judging life, opposing to it supposedly higher values, measuring it against these values, restricting and condemning it. And at the same time that thought thus becomes negative, life depreciates, ceases to be active, is reduced to its weakest forms, to sickly forms that are alone compatible with the so-caIled higher values. It is the triumph of "reaction" over active Iife and of negation over affirmative thought.”
― Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life
― Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life
“Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be, stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.”
― The Art Spirit
― The Art Spirit
“We do not feel ourselves outside of our time but continue to undergo shameful compromises with it. This feeling of shame is one of philosophy’s more powerful motifs. We are not responsible for the victims but responsible before them.”
― What Is Philosophy?
― What Is Philosophy?
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