“Only when you challenge your understanding of how some people view the world, can you decide for yourself if theirs is a view worth having.”— Hank Green, youtube.comTagged: World Views
“All you have is a brain. And the goal of philosophy is for you to use your brain to come up with the answers that make the most sense to you.”— Hank Green, youtube.comTagged: Philosophy, Thinking
“People are constantly putting up an umbrella that shelters them in a firmament of conventions and opinions. But poets make a slit in the umbrella, they tear open the firmament itself, to let in a bit of free and windy chaos and to frame in a sudden light a vision that appears through the tear. But t…”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.comTagged: Art, Aesthetics, Making Chaos, Reframing, Creative Destruction
“Art begins not with flesh but with the house. That is why architecture is the first of the arts.”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.comTagged: Artistic Food Chain, Architecture, All Art Aspires To Architecture
“This is, precisely, the task of all art and, from colors and sounds, both music and painting similarly extract new harmonies, new plastic or melodic landscapes, and new rhythmic characters that raise them to the height of the earth’s song and the cry of humanity: that which constitutes tone, health,…”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.comTagged: Task of Art, Paint the World
“The artist is a seer, a becomer. He has seen something in life that is too great, too unbearable also, and the mutual embrace of life with what threatens it, so that the corner of nature or districts of the town that he sees, along with their characters, accede to a vision that, through them, compos…”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.comTagged: Artist, Becoming, Life Under The Shadow of Idealism, Second Vision
“It is always a question of freeing life wherever it is imprisoned, or of tempting it into an uncertain combat.”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.comTagged: Liberation, Eating the Locks
“From virtuals we descend to actual states of affairs, and from states of affairs we ascend to virtuals, without being able to isolate one from the other.”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.comTagged: Theory and Practice, The (Virtual) Reality of Strategy, Abstraction, Concrete Life vs. Abstraction
“Logic is always defeated by itself, that is to say, by the insignificance of the cases on which it thrives.”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.comTagged: Logic Against Logic, Epistemology, Limits of Knowledge, The Seduction of Unreason
“Chaos is defined not so much by its disorder as by the infinite speed with which every form taking shape in it vanishes. It is a void that is not a nothingness but a virtual, containing all possible particles and drawing out all possible forms, which spring up only to disappear immediately.”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.comTagged: Chaos, The Disappearance of Shape, Emergent Systems, Against Identity, Body Without Organs