Deleuze, Gilles

"To create requires breaking with what came before."

"The greatest learning occurs when we abandon our certainties."

"Life is not something to be understood but to be lived experimentally."

"We must learn to think alongside others, not against them."

"The event is what makes the present open rather than closed."

"Imagination is not escape from reality but a different engagement with it."

"To speak is always to distort; to be silent is also to distort."

"We create ourselves through our encounters with what is other."

"The singular and the universal are always entangled in complex ways."

"Art teaches us how to perceive what we habitually overlook."

"To think is to move against the grain of established thought."

"Difference is not something to overcome but to cultivate."

"We must learn to value becoming over being."

"The encounter with the new is always somewhat violent and disorienting."

"To create is to affirm what is while also opening toward what might be."

"We are never finished with ourselves; completion is impossible."

"The best ideas come from places we did not expect to look."

"To understand another is never fully possible, but the attempt creates meaning."

"The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth that conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true."

"We must make the most of the interval between birth and death."

"Repetition is the difference between a concept and an image."

"Becoming is always 'between' two determinations; it is only the interval as a subject."

"The smooth space is the space of the nomad, the striated space is the space of the sedentary."

"Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to be forced to make you act."

"A book is a little machine for generating problems."

"One discovers new lands only by consenting to lose sight of the shore."

"The right to happiness does not presuppose the right to be happy."

"Thought is always movement—a flow, a process, a becoming."

"To create is to grow, and growth is always folding, doubling, and multiplying."

"The question 'what am I?' is less interesting than 'what can I become?'"