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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'A Conversation: what is it? What is it for?' and 'Mental Content'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

21849	Thought should be thrown like a stone from a war-machine [Deleuze]
	Full Idea: Thought should be thrown like a stone by a war-machine. …Isn't this what Nietzsche does with an aphorism?
	From: Gilles Deleuze (A Conversation: what is it? What is it for? [1977], II)
	A reaction: It sounds as if philosophy should consist of nothing but aphorisms.

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

21845	Philosophy aims to become the official language, supporting orthodoxy and the state [Deleuze]
	Full Idea: Philosophy is shot through with the project of becoming the official language of a Pure State. The exercise of thought thus conforms to the goals of the real State, to the dominant meanings and to the requirements of the established order.
	From: Gilles Deleuze (A Conversation: what is it? What is it for? [1977], I)
	A reaction: [He cites Nietzsche's 'Schopenhauer as Educator' as the source of this] Is Karl Marx included in this generalisation, or Diogenes of Sinope? Is conservative philosophy thereby invalidated?