#philosophy of difference

[deleuzeandphilosophy]

Intensity is not the sensible but the being of the sensible, where different relates to different.

Deleuze, Difference and Repetition

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We always have as much truth as we deserve in accordance with the sense of what we say.

Deleuze, Difference & Repetition

[deleuzeandphilosophy]

Difference is light, aerial and affirmative. To affirm is not to bear but, on the contrary, to discharge and to lighten.

Gilles Deleuze, Difference & Repetition

[deleuzeandphilosophy]

That identity not be first, that it exist as a principle but as a second principle, as a principle become; that it revolve around the Different: such would be the nature of a Copernican revolution which opens up the possibility of difference having its own concept, rather than being maintained under the domination of a concept in general already understood as identical.

Gilles Deleuze, Difference & Repetition

[deleuzeandphilosophy]

Negation is difference, but difference seen from its underside, seen from below. Seen the right way up, from top to bottom, difference is affirmation. This proposition, however, means many things: that difference is an object of affirmation; that affirmation itself is multiple; that it is creation but also that it must be created, as affirming difference, as being difference in itself.

Gilles Deleuze, Difference & Repetition