23 ideas
21844 | The history of philosophy is an agent of power: how can you think if you haven't read the great names? [Deleuze] |
20455 | Philosophy really got started as the rival mode of discourse to tragedy [Critchley] |
21849 | Thought should be thrown like a stone from a war-machine [Deleuze] |
21845 | Philosophy aims to become the official language, supporting orthodoxy and the state [Deleuze] |
20446 | Philosophy begins in disappointment, notably in religion and politics [Critchley] |
21839 | When I meet objections I just move on; they never contribute anything [Deleuze] |
20449 | Science gives us an excessively theoretical view of life [Critchley] |
21841 | We must create new words, and treat them as normal, and as if designating real things. [Deleuze] |
20448 | Phenomenology uncovers and redescribes the pre-theoretical layer of life [Critchley] |
21842 | Don't assess ideas for truth or justice; look for another idea, and establish a relationship with it [Deleuze] |
21850 | Dualisms can be undone from within, by tracing connections, and drawing them to a new path [Deleuze] |
21838 | Before we seek solutions, it is important to invent problems [Deleuze] |
21847 | Before Being there is politics [Deleuze] |
9807 | In pursuing truth, anything less certain than mathematics is a waste of time [Descartes] |
21840 | A meeting of man and animal can be deterritorialization (like a wasp with an orchid) [Deleuze] |
21843 | People consist of many undetermined lines, some rigid, some supple, some 'lines of flight' [Deleuze] |
20454 | Wallace Stevens is the greatest philosophical poet of the twentieth century in English [Critchley] |
20456 | Interesting art is always organised around ethical demands [Critchley] |
20447 | The problems is not justifying ethics, but motivating it. Why should a self seek its good? [Critchley] |
20452 | Anarchism used to be libertarian (especially for sexuality), but now concerns responsibility [Critchley] |
20450 | The state, law, bureaucracy and capital are limitations on life, so I prefer federalist anarchism [Critchley] |
20451 | Belief that humans are wicked leads to authoritarian politics [Critchley] |
21848 | Some lines (of flight) are becomings which escape the system [Deleuze] |