Deleuze, Gilles

"Every act of creation destroys established values and creates new ones."

"To write is to become someone, but never to arrive at stability."

"Nomadic thought moves without fixed territories or hierarchies."

"The virtual is not less real than the actual; it is differently real."

"Love is not about merging two beings but creating a third space between them."

"Power is not something one has but something one does."

"To read is to encounter a thousand different authors in one text."

"The rhizome has no beginning or end, only middles."

"Repetition creates difference; difference creates repetition."

"We must construct a way of thinking adequate to our contemporary situation."

"The event is not what happens but what makes happening possible."

"To express oneself is never to express one's self, but rather to produce oneself."

"Politics begins when we refuse to accept what is as what must be."

"Language is a code we must learn to break rather than obey."

"The body is not the opposite of thought but its very condition."

"To create is to cut connections and forge new ones."

"History is not what happened but what could have happened."

"Difference is the very foundation of what we call identity."

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

"The future is not determined; it is open to infinite variations."

"To understand something is to trace its conditions of emergence."

"Art provides a kind of knowledge that science cannot express."

"Chaos is not disorder but a state of infinite potential."

"The self is not a substance but a process of becoming."

"Every system contains the seeds of its own transformation."

"We must learn to desire differently, not to desire less."

"The stranger within us is as important as the stranger outside."

"To think is to escape the present moment while being bound to it."

"Beauty emerges in the spaces between things, not in things themselves."

"We are always creating ourselves, never discovering some inner truth."