Top 100 Gilles Quotes
#1. There was good in seahorses, in yellow dwarfs of destiny, but they are in no way adapted to the requirements of modern life.
Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)
Tom McDonough
#2. If you accuse a man of murder, you might be believed, but if you accuse him of eating children for lunch and dinner like Gilles de Rais, no one will take you seriously.
Umberto Eco
#3. Gilles Duceppe avoids making campaign promises altogether so he can emphasize that his Bloc Quebecois has only one objective: to prevent Harper from forming a majority government.
Martin O'Malley
#4. I feel like one of the things I'm trying most to do is stretch my empathetic reach, as far as it will go. I got as far as Gilles de Rais' assistant, for example, and not really as far as de Rais himself.
Jim Shepard
#5. Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role.
George Singleton
#6. Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.
Helen Waddell
#7. It is only the happy who are hard, Gilles. I think perhaps it is better for the world if - if one has a broken heart. One is quick to recognise it, elsewhere. And one has time to think about other people, if there is nothing left to hope for any more.
Helen Waddell
#8. Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future.
Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)
Tom McDonough
#9. Morality consists in this for each individual: to attempt each time to extend its region of clear expression, to try to augment its amplitude, so as to produce a free act that expresses the most possible in one given condition or another.
Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, 73
Gilles Deleuze
#10. Gilles was the fastest driver in the history of motor racing
Jody Scheckter
#11. Writing for nobody? Impossible. You fumble, you stop. I don't even take the trouble of expressing myself so that when I reread myself I can understand whatever it was I was trying to say. Gilles will figure it out, he'll work it through.
Felix Guattari
#12. We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired...
Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)
Tom McDonough
#13. To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.
Gilles Deleuze
#14. Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
Gilles Deleuze
#15. A mild attack of apoplexy may be called death's retaining fee.
Gilles Menage
#16. There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
Gilles Deleuze
#17. Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
Gilles Deleuze
#19. Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
Gilles Deleuze
#20. You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
Gilles Deleuze
#21. Usually a fiber, after being dipped in a liquid, shows a string of droplets, and thus, for some time, people thought that most common fibers were non-wettable.
Pierre-Gilles De Gennes
#22. Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
Gilles Deleuze
#23. Gardening ... demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.
Gilles Clement
#24. Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.
Gilles Deleuze
#25. If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.
Gilles Villeneuve
#27. The incarnation, passion, and resurrection of the Son do not modify the Trinity. In becoming man, the Son 'enhanced human nature without diminishing the divine.' 'Even when the Word takes a body from Mary, the Trinity remains a Trinity, with neither increase nor decrease. It is forever perfect.
Gilles Emery
#28. The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
Gilles Deleuze
#29. Judge Schreber has sunbeams in his ass. A solar anus. And rest assured that it works.
Gilles Deleuze
#30. Making love is not just becoming as one, or even two, but becoming as a hundred thousand. Desiring-machines or the nonhuman sex: not one or even two sexes, but n sexes.
Gilles Deleuze
#31. Here all guilt ceases, for it cannot cling to such flowers as these.
Gilles Deleuze
#32. Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.
Gilles Deleuze
#33. Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.
Gilles Deleuze
#34. Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression
Gilles Deleuze
#35. The difference between a 20-something and a 30-something man? Wisdom. At 20 years old, we don't really get how sensitive and beautiful women are. By 30, we're finally starting to learn.
Gilles Marini
#36. I guess the grass is always greener elsewhere.
Gilles Marini
#37. To those who say that escaping is not courageous, we answer: what is not escape and social investment at the same time?
Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari
#39. The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
Gilles Deleuze
#40. We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not just the democratic posting of images but the democratic interpretation of images.
Gilles Peress
#41. What is important is no longer either a signature or a number, but a code: the code is a password.
Gilles Deleuze
#42. Muslim citizens should never be classified according to their creed, origin, ancestry or culture. After all, I don't define my political or social position by reference to the Christian faith.
Gilles Kepel
#43. It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity
Gilles Deleuze
#44. The city seems to be a labyrinth that can be ordered. The world is an infinite series of curvatures or inflections, and the entire world is enclosed in the soul from one point of view.
Gilles Deleuze
#45. It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving.
Gilles Duceppe
#46. The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
Gilles Deleuze
#47. The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility
Gilles Deleuze
#48. Philosophy is the discipline that involves creating concepts .
Gilles Deleuze
#49. In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
Gilles Deleuze
#50. Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything.
Gilles Deleuze
#51. The Argentine tango is very special to me because it's full of sensuality. The chemistry between the man and woman is absolutely stunning.
Gilles Marini
#52. I don't eat bad stuff too much but I have my glass of wine as I am French and it would be insulting not to.
Gilles Marini
#53. Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?
Gilles Duceppe
#54. We head for the horizon, on the plane of immanence, and we return with bloodshot eyes, yet they are the eyes of the mind.
Gilles Deleuze
#55. What do we mean by soft matter? Americans prefer to call it 'complex fluids.' This is a rather ugly name, which tends to discourage the young students.
Pierre-Gilles De Gennes
#56. Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
Gilles Deleuze
#57. Evaluations, in essence, are ... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.
Gilles Deleuze
#58. Nothing is wrong about giving a rose to someone you like or love.
Gilles Marini
#59. [The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?
Gilles Peress
#60. Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.
Gilles Deleuze
#61. I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.
Gilles Deleuze
#62. A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different dates and speeds.
Gilles Deleuze
#63. If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.
Gilles Deleuze
#64. Drunkenness as a triumphant irruption of the plant in us.
Gilles Deleuze
#65. Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.
Gilles Deleuze
#66. Belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production
Gilles Deleuze
#67. A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
Gilles Deleuze
#69. Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.
Gilles Deleuze
#70. Bora Bora is peaceful and quiet, but fun, so full of cool activities and more; spiritual to the core, and you leave with fully recharged batteries.
Gilles Marini
#71. The Americans view the democratization of the Middle East as the route to peace.
Gilles Kepel
#72. Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive.
Gilles Marini
#73. The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?
Gilles Deleuze
#74. The philosopher must become non-philosopher so that non-philosophy becomes the earth and people of philosophy.
Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari
#75. Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, he poured a small amount of oleic acid, a natural surfactant which tends to form a dense film at the water-air interface.
Pierre-Gilles De Gennes
#76. I have never believed that things happen by themselves.
Gilles Duceppe
#77. All men are body conscious. If they say they're not, they're lying.
Gilles Marini
#78. Surfactants allow us to protect a water surface and to generate these beautiful soap bubbles, which are the delight of our children.
Pierre-Gilles De Gennes
#79. The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.
Gilles Deleuze
#80. Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.
Gilles Deleuze
#81. The theory of thought is like painting: it needs that revolution which took art from representation to abstraction. This is the aim of a theory of thought without image.
Gilles Deleuze
#82. The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.
Gilles Menage
#83. There's no democratic state that's not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
Gilles Deleuze
#84. The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.
Pierre-Gilles De Gennes
#85. My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.
Gilles Duceppe
#86. This intensely lyrical vision of the pregant woman in [i]Hope I[i] is set in an ambiguous context peopled with masks, death's heads and allegorical monsters such as Sin, Disease, Poverty and Death, all threatening the incipient life.
Gilles Neret
#87. Identity and resemblance would then be no more than inevitable illusions - in other words, concepts of reflection which would account for our inveterate habit of thinking difference on the basis of the categories of representation.
Gilles Deleuze
#88. 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.
Gilles Deleuze
#89. The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.
Gilles Deleuze
#90. Images exist; things themselves are images ... Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement ...
Gilles Deleuze
#91. Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think
Gilles Deleuze
#92. Quit while there is still time - at about 12 or 13 years of age!
Gilles Gratton
#93. The administration of a great organized molar security has as its correlate a whole micro-management of petty fears, a permanent molecular insecurity, to the point that the motto of domestic policymakers might be: a macropolitics of society by and for the micropolitics of insecurity
Gilles Deleuze
#94. The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
Gilles Deleuze
#95. A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Gilles Deleuze
#96. Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people?
Gilles Duceppe
#98. Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.
Gilles Menage
#99. What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.
Gilles Deleuze
#100. Sometimes someone feels like nothing goes their way, and then something really good happens. For me, hearing that I made someone happy makes me feel so alive!
Gilles Marini
