quotes by Gilles Deleuze

"Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come"
— Gilles Deleuze

"Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?"
— Gilles Deleuze (Mille Plateaux)

"The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering."
— Gilles Deleuze (Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation)

"It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id."
— Gilles Deleuze (Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia)

"The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?"
— Gilles Deleuze

"An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking."
— Gilles Deleuze (Dialogues II)

"Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject."
— Gilles Deleuze