Guattari And Deleuze Quotes & Sayings

There is no question, however, of establishing a dualist opposition between the two types of multiplicities, molecular machines and molar machines; that would be no better than the dualism between the One and the multiple. There are only multiplicities of multiplicities forming a single assemblage, operating in the same assemblage: packs in masses and masses in packs. — Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari

The philosopher must become non-philosopher so that non-philosophy becomes the earth and people of philosophy. — Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari

Form is the host; content is the virus. — Jeff Noon

Early in "Postulates of Linguistics," Deleuze and Guattari claim that, "the elementary unit of language ... is the order-word," which "not to be believe but to be obeyed" (ATP, 76). Perhaps the starkest example is the judge's sentence that condemns a criminal to death (80-81; 94). But the French for order-word, mot d'ordre, also refers to the political slogan, which is substantiated by Deleuze and Guattari's reference to Lenin's pamphlet "On Slogans" (83). Both of these examples indicate how closely their linguistics aligns with the rhetorical theory of symbolic action. Rhetoric is excellent at studying those acts that cause incorporeal transformations, which as changes in a state of affairs that do not directly alter its materiality (80-88). — Anonymous

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

I can't bear to hear a woman talk baby talk. — Cary Grant

The fact is that the more we take flight upward [to God], the more our words are confined to the ideas we are capable of forming; so that now as we plunge into that darkness which is beyond intellect, we shall find ourselves not simply running short of words but actually speechless and unknowing. — Pope Dionysius

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it. — Robin Williams

The war machine is a concept that Deleuze and Guattari pulled from Pierre Clastres who said that indigenous and nomadic peoples live in such a way that war isn't a thing that sometimes interrupts peace, but war is actually a common condition that peace sometimes interrupts. And war isn't just lethal violence at all times, there's also a playful element to it. — Anonymous

Life has no meaning. You give meaning to everything. Your beliefs influence the meanings you give. Your judgment about situations is based on the beliefs you hold. — Hina Hashmi

Human beings are compelled to massacre animals unceasingly, because human beings are simply unable to survive, for the most part, on apples and nuts. - Ravissante — Robert Aickman

You were the same person, no matter what state you happened to be stuck breathing in. — Wally Lamb

Deleuze and Guattari describe capitalism as a kind of dark potentiality which haunted all previous social systems. Capital, they argue, is the 'unnamable Thing', the abomination, which primitive and feudal societies 'warded off in advance'. When it actually arrives, capitalism brings with it a massive desacralization of culture. It is a system which is no longer governed by any transcendent Law; on the contrary, it dismantles all such codes, only to re-install them on an ad hoc basis. — Mark Fisher

I made clothes because I was looking for something that didn't exist. I had to try to create my own world. — Thierry Mugler

The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man. — Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari

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? — Gilles Deleuze