The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image … - Gilles Deleuze

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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.

Gilles Deleuze

The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes itself and the genesis of the act of thinking in thought itself. Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter

Encounters, Fundamentals, Image, Presupposes, Thinking

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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.

People, Right, Saying, Silence, Solitude, Thing

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

Inspirational, Freedom, Philosophy, Window, Reason, Thrown

A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.

Possibility, Creator, Impossibility, Thereby, Creates

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.

Self, Order, Lines, Clandestine, Love, True

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.

Writing, Poetry, Consistency, Machine, Extend, Covering