Verification and diplomacy, used in conjunction, can be effective,.
Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.
Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .
If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.