Gilles Deleuze

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"We don't have a being that lasts; we are a process, a becoming."

"Thought is not something that comes naturally to us; it must be forced."

"A book is not an image of the world. It makes maps of maps."

"One can write anything as long as one doesn't believe in it."

"Difference is not diversity. Diversity is simply a fact, while difference is a concept."

"The role of the intellectual is not to tell others what they should think."

"Sadness is impotence; depression is a real illness."

"We must maintain belief in the future without the faintest idea of what it will be."

"Belief is not required to act. Action creates belief."

"Chaos is energy; from it comes motion, change, transformation."

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."

"People are always negotiating in a game that doesn't really concern them."

"You never know beforehand which side of the bed you'll wake up on."

"Art is the most effective means of penetrating reality."

"The history of philosophy is not the history of truths but the history of opinions."

"Learning means different things to different people."

"Desire creates reality, not the reverse."

"A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor."

"The question of freedom is directly tied to becoming."

"Friendships are based on a fundamental understanding."

"Time is not something that passes; we pass through time."

"Beauty is found in difference and multiplicity."

"Nature is not one thing but infinite becoming."

"Music is the refuge of those who feel too much."

"Science is about asking better questions."

"Writing is a form of becoming something other than oneself."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the transcendence of it."

"Patience is the virtue of the strong."

"Kindness is an act of defiance."