Aristotle

 “I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”

Aristotle

Nietzsche

“Philosophers appear during times of great danger, when the wheel of time is turning faster and faster. Together with art they step into the place vacated by myth.”

Nietzsche. Birth of Tragedy.

Nietzsche - Science

“…[the]inquiring scientific spirit how it destroyed the myth, and how that destruction uprooted poetry from its natural, ideal soil, leaving it homeless.” Nietzsche (BT P82)

Nietzsche - Science

“…great and universally minded spirits have,…used the armoury of science to lay bare the limitations and determinations of knowledge, and thus have decisively negated the claims of science to universal validity and universal goals….they have revealed the delusion…which imagines it can explain the innermost essence of things." 

Nietzsche BT P87

Nietzsche

Nietzsche argues that we need “...to see science under the lens of the artist, but art under the lens of life.”

Nietzsche - on the Greeks

“The Greeks as interpreters: When we speak of the Greeks we involuntary speak of today and yesterday; their universally known history is a polished mirror which always reflects something that is not in the mirror itself. We take advantage of the freedom to speak about them in order to be silent about other things - so that these Greeks might themselves whisper something in the ear of the thoughtful reader. Thus for modern man the Greeks facilitate the communication of many things which are difficult or hazardous to communicate.”

Nietzsche

Nietzsche

 "I teach you the superman. Man is something to be surpassed"

Nietzsche

Jacques Derrida

“…no degree of progress allows one to ignore that never before, in absolute figures, have so many men, women and children been subjugated, starved or exterminated on the Earth.”

Jacques Derrida

Lyotard. The Post Modern Condition

“…A work can only become modern if it is first post-modern. Post-modernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent [starting] state, and this is constant.” 

Lyotard. The Post Modern Condition (1979)

Jean Baudrillard

“The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance but deceit and fraud”

Jean Baudrillard

Giles Deleuze

“Schizophrenia is the enlargement of life’s limits through the pragmatic proliferation of concepts.” 
Giles Deleuze

Giles Deleuze - on state philosophy

Academic Philosophy, what Delueze calls “State Philosophy”,  is part of the system. 

“State Philosophy” is grounded in double identity. The thinking subject and its concepts and its correspondence with an external object.

“Thus the exercise of their thought is in conformity with the aims of the real State, with the dominant significations, and with the requirements of the established order."

Giles Deleuze

Giles Deleuze - on state philosophy

“Representational thought is analogical…The faculty of judgment serves as the police force of analogy…In thought its end is truth, in action justice….The modus operandi is negation…Identity, resemblance, truth, justice and negation. The rational foundations of order”
Giles Deleuze

Giles Deleuze - on nomadic thought

“‘Nomad thought’…It does not repose on identity; it rides difference.”  


Giles Deleuze 

Other attempts at Nomadic Thoughts:

Spinoza’s                               “Ethics”

Nietzsche                               “Gay science”

Artaud                                    “Crowned anarchy”

Maurice Blanchot                  “Space of literature”

Foucault                                 “Outside thought”

Giles Deleuze - on concepts

A concept is a vector. 


“The concept has no subject or object other than itself. It is an act.” 
Giles Deleuze

Giles Deleuze - on power

“Force is not be confused with power. Power is the domestication of force. Force in its wild states arrives from outside to break constraints and open new vistas. Power builds walls.” 

Giles Deleuze

Giles Deleuze - on nomadic thought

“State space is ‘striated’, or gridded. Movement is confined by gravity to a horizontal plane,…Nomad space is ‘smooth’ or open-ended. One can rise up at any point and move to another. Its mode of distribution is the nomos: arraying oneself in an open space (hold the street), as opposed to the logos of entrenching oneself in a closed space (hold the fort).” 

Giles Deleuze

Terms originally coined by Pierre Boulez.

Nietzsche

“The philosopher is a self-revaluation of nature’s workshop: the philosopher and the artist tell the trade secrets of nature. The sphere of the philosopher and the artist tell the trade secrets of nature. The sphere of the philosopher and the artist exists above the tumult of contemporary history, beyond necessity. The philosopher is a brake-shoe on the wheel of time.

Philosophers appear during times of great danger, when the wheel of time is turning faster and faster. Together with art they step into the place vacated by myth. But they are far ahead of their time, since the attention of their contemporaries only turns towards them slowly…”

Nietzsche