Deleuze, Gilles

"We must think of becoming as a process of continuous variation without fixed identity."

"The most important thing about art is that it creates new possibilities for life."

"Language is a system of differences without positive terms."

"Escape, but by making connections, not by withdrawing."

"The smooth space of nomadic distribution opposes the striated space of sedentary organization."

"Every act of creation requires the rupture of existing forms."

"We must construct planes of consistency, not planes of organization."

"Cinema does not give us an image, it rather gives us an indirect image of time."

"The problem is not to acquire knowledge but to create it."

"Belief is not a psychological state but an ontological one."

"Speed and slowness are only relative; what matters is the kind of multiplicity involved."

"We are surrounded not by objects but by processes and events."

"The author is dead; what survives is the multiplicity of interpretations."

"A body is defined not by its form but by what it can do."

"History is not the study of the past but the study of how the past becomes present."

"The symptom is not an illness but a creative response to an impossible situation."

"We must think in terms of multiplicities, not in terms of one or many."

"Technology is not merely instrumental; it shapes the very nature of our existence."

"The face is a kind of politics, a kind of racism."

"Memory is not individual; it is collective and machinic."

"We do not see the world as it is; we see it as we are."

"The greatest act is not to create something new but to deterritorialize the existing."

"Madness is not a departure from reason but a different kind of reasoning."

"The body without organs is a limit to desire, not its realization."

"Time is not homogeneous; it is fractured and multiple."

"We are always already in the middle of something; there is no origin."

"The virtual is fully real, even though it is not actual."

"Laughter is a form of freedom that transcends rational argument."

"The event is what escapes both subject and object."

"We must learn to think without the crutch of representation."