Deleuze, Gilles

"Never believe that a smooth space will suffice to save us."

"What matters is whether the work itself functions, whether it works."

"Memory is not the opposite of forgetting; they are complementary processes."

"Every conversation is a rhizome; it is not hierarchical but rather a tangled network."

"Capitalism has learned to traffic in its own critique."

"One cannot occupy without being occupied, without being territorialized."

"The present is not simply the actual; it is as much virtual as actual."

"We need a pedagogy of becoming, not of being."

"The plane of immanence is life itself, continuous and without segments."

"Difference is affirmed in itself, not as a negative or opposition."

"Art is the creation of functive spaces and times."

"Ideas are not separate from their material expressions."

"The event is what is most real about reality."

"Bodies are not secondary to ideas; they are fundamental."

"A tic is a smooth movement through the striated body."

"Becomings are not analogical; they are the real, the positive, and the living."

"What we call history is often the history of repression and rigid segmentarity."

"Desire is not a movement toward an object; it is productive in itself."

"The virtual is as real as the actual, though not in the same way."

"To think is to experiment, to produce the new."

"Every organism is a thousand organisms folded into one."

"We must learn to think differently, to think the unthinkable."

"Identity is an illusion; we are all multiplicities."

"The rhizome has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle."

"Laughter is not opposed to seriousness; it is a distinct mode of thinking."

"Power is not something one possesses; it flows through all relations."

"Create new concepts; don't just recycle old ones."

"The map is not the territory; let us draw new maps."

"We are always already in the middle of things, not at the origin."

"Minorities are not quantitative but qualitative; they are lines of flight."