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Félix Guattari Quotes

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“We're always wondering whether there might be life or intelligence on other planets, way up in the stars. But we never ask ourselves about the infinitely small. Maybe it could from there, from a universe that's even smaller than protons, electrons, and quarks. ”
— Félix Guattari, A Love of UIQ
Tagged: Space Travel, New Thinking, NASA’s Avant-Garde, Is Space Small?
“We had never stopped asking this question previously, and we already had the answer, which has not changed: philosophy is the art of forming, inventing, and fabricating concepts.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy? (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Tagged: Philosophy, My Philosophy, Constructivism, Philosophical
“Logic is always defeated by itself, that is to say, by the insignificance of the cases on which it thrives.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?
Tagged: Logic Against Logic, Epistemology, Limits of Knowledge, The Seduction of Unreason
“It is always a question of freeing life wherever it is imprisoned, or of tempting it into an uncertain combat.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?
Tagged: Liberation, Eating the Locks
“Under capitalism: You will be organized, you will be an organism. You will be a subject, nailed down as one. ”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Tagged: Stratification
“ It is well known that rhythm is not meter or cadence, even irregular meter or cadence: there is nothing less rhythmic than a military march.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
Tagged: Philosophy, Chaos, rhythm
“From virtuals we descend to actual states of affairs, and from states of affairs we ascend to virtuals, without being able to isolate one from the other.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?
Tagged: Theory and Practice, The (Virtual) Reality of Strategy, Abstraction, Concrete Life vs. Abstraction
“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, Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Tagged: great opening
“We can at least see what philosophy is not: it is not contemplation, reflection, or communication. ”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy? (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Tagged: Philosophy
“Art begins not with flesh but with the house. That is why architecture is the first of the arts.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?
Tagged: Artistic Food Chain, Architecture, All Art Aspires To Architecture
“Sometimes chaos is an immense black hole in which one endeavors to fix a fragile point as a center. Sometimes one organizes around that point a calm and stable "pace" (rather than a form): the black hole has become a home. Sometimes one grafts onto that pace a breakaway from the black hole.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Thousand Plateaus
Tagged: Philosophy, Chaos
“Rhythm is the milieus' answer to chaos.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A thousand
Tagged: Philosophy, Chaos, refrain
“Chaos is defined not so much by its disorder as by the infinite speed with which every form taking shape in it vanishes. It is a void that is not a nothingness but a virtual, containing all possible particles and drawing out all possible forms, which spring up only to disappear immediately.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?
Tagged: Chaos, The Disappearance of Shape, Emergent Systems, Against Identity, Body Without Organs, Weaving Chaos
“The lines of flight coil and start to swirl in black holes, like a snail. Down instead of high. Instead of making a body without organs sufficiently rich for the passage of intensities the creative line turns into a line of abolition. ”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Tagged: Drug Addiction, Portrait of an Addict
“Now we are at home. But home does not preexist: it was necessary to draw a circle around that uncertain and fragile center, to organize a limited space. Many, very diverse, components have a part in this, landmarks and marks of all kinds.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Thousand Plateuas
Tagged: Philosophy, Repetition, autopoiesis, refrain
“One ventures from home on the thread of a tune. Along sonorous, gestural, motor lines that mark the customary path of a child and graft themselves onto or begin to bud "linesof drift" with different loops, knots, speeds, movements, gestures, and sonorities.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Thousand Plateaus
Tagged: Philosophy, Multiplicity, Music, refrain, Repetition
“This is, precisely, the task of all art and, from colors and sounds, both music and painting similarly extract new harmonies, new plastic or melodic landscapes, and new rhythmic characters that raise them to the height of the earth’s song and the cry of humanity: that which constitutes tone, health, becoming, a visual and sonorous bloc.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?
Tagged: Task of Art, Paint the World
“There are several ways of botching your body without organs. If you unleash it with too violent of an action, if you blow apart the strata without precaution, then instead of engendering the plane you will be plunged into a sewn-up hole. The hypochondriac body, the paranoid body, the schizo body, the drugged body, the masochist body — a dreary parade catatonicized bodies. Empty instead of full. What happened? Many have been defeated in this battle”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Tagged: Towards a body without organs
“People are constantly putting up an umbrella that shelters them in a firmament of conventions and opinions. But poets make a slit in the umbrella, they tear open the firmament itself, to let in a bit of free and windy chaos and to frame in a sudden light a vision that appears through the tear. But then the crowd of imitators come and repair the umbrella with something vaguely resembling the vision, and the crowd of commentators who patch over the tear with opinions. Thus other artists are always needed to make other slits, to carry out necessary and perhaps ever-greater destructions, thereby restoring to their predecessors the incommunicable novelty that we could no longer see.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?
Tagged: Art, Aesthetics, Making Chaos, Reframing, Creative Destruction, What Poetry Does, Poetry, Engendering Novelty, Make It New
“From chaos, Milieus and Rhythms are born. This is the concern of very ancient cosmogonies. Chaos is not without its own directional compo-nents, which are its own ecstasies. We have seen elsewhere how all kinds of milieus, each defined by a component, slide in relation to one another, over one another. Every milieu is vibratory, in other words, a block of space-time constituted by the periodic repetition of the component.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
Tagged: Philosophy, Chaos, refrain, Repetition
“The artist is a seer, a becomer. He has seen something in life that is too great, too unbearable also, and the mutual embrace of life with what threatens it, so that the corner of nature or districts of the town that he sees, along with their characters, accede to a vision that, through them, composes the percepts of that life, of that moment, shattering lived perceptions into a sort of cubism, a sort of simultaneism, of harsh or crepuscular light, of purple or blue.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?
Tagged: Artist, Becoming, Life Under The Shadow of Idealism, Second Vision
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