Gilles Deleuze: Being

Gilles Deleuze was French philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on being.

Gilles Deleuze: 70 quotes18 likes

“The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?”

“A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.”

“Evaluations, in essence, are… ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.”

Gilles Deleuze book Nietzsche and Philosophy

Source: Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962), p. 1

“It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in firs and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id. Everywhere it is machines- real ones, not figurative ones: machines driving other machines, machines being driven by other machines, with all the necessary couplings and connections. An organ-machine is plugged into an energy-source-machine: the one produces a flow that the other interrupts The breast is a machine that produces miilk, and the mouth a machine coupled to it.”

The Desiring Machine
Anti-Oedipus Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1977)

“It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id. Everywhere it is machines — real ones, not figurative ones: machines driving other machines, machines being driven by other machines, with all the necessary couplings and connections.”

from Anti-oedipus: capitalism and schizophrenia, p. 1