Gilles Deleuze: Doing

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

Gilles Deleuze: 70 quotes18 likes

“The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?”

Source: Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

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

“Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.”

“Second, we make no distinction between man and nature: the human essence of nature and the natural essence of man become one within nature in the form of production or industry, just as they do within the life of man as a species. Industry is then no longer considered from the extrinsic point of view of utility, but rather from the point of view of its fundamental identity with nature as production of man and by man.”

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