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“Nature propels the philosopher into mankind like an arrow; it takes no aim but hopes the arrow will stick somewhere. But countless times it misses and is depressed at the fact… The artist and the philosopher are evidence against the purposiveness of nature as regards the means it employs, though they are also first-rate evidence as to the wisdom of its purpose. They strike home at only a few, while they ought to strike home at everybody—and even these few are not struck with the force with which the philosopher and artist launch their shot.” —Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Treatise on Nomadology—The War Machine, p. 377; originally: Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator, in Untimely Meditations, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 177–178. Archive.org” ThinkingArtPhilosophyWisdomNatureBecomingBeingThe PhilosopherThe Artist Author:Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari
“Nature propels the philosopher into mankind like an arrow; it takes no aim but hopes the arrow will stick somewhere. But countless times it misses and is depressed at the fact… The artist and the philosopher are evidence against the purposiveness of nature as regards the means it employs, though they are also first-rate evidence as to the wisdom of its purpose. They strike home at only a few, while they ought to strike home at everybody—and even these few are not struck with the force with which the philosopher and artist launch their shot.” — Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Treatise on Nomadology—The War Machine, p. 377 Archive.org” ThinkingArtPhilosophyWisdomNatureBecomingBeingThe PhilosopherThe Artist Author:Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari
“Although it is true that this counterthought attests to an absolute solitude, it is an extremely populous solitude, like the desert itself, a solitude already intertwined with a people to come, one that invokes and awaits that people, existing only through it, though it is not yet here.” — Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, translated by Brian Massumi, University of Minnesota Press, 1987, p. 377.” ThinkingPhilosophyWisdomBecomingSolitudeBeingThe Philosopher Book:Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Source: Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
“Deleuze and Guattari have been totally misunderstood because the following has been wrenched from context: "Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political." (112) They are NOT advocating for this sort of prescriptive approach to language; rather, they are describing the social system around language--how language is a political tool. Why persist in quoting them as though they are promoting some sort of linguistic purity?” LanguageFascismGrammarMisquotingPrescriptive Versus DescriptiveWrenching From Context Author:Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari
“Nosotros, los brujos, sabemos perfectamente que las contradicciones son reales, pero que las contradicciones reales no lo son en serio.” ContradicciónBrujería Author:Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari