The measure of the truth

The problem isn’t that some things are wrong, but that they’re stupid or irrelevant. That they’ve already been said a thousand times. The notions of relevance, necessity, the point of something, are a thousand times more significant than the notion of truth. Not as substitutes for truth, but as the measure of the truth of what I’m saying.

Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations

Repetition is a historical condition

Repetition is never a historical fact, but rather the historical condition under which something new is produced.

Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition (Continuum, 2004) p. 113

A contemplative soul

A soul must be attributed to the heart, to the muscles, nerves and cells, but a contemplative soul whose entire function is to contract a habit.

Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition (Continuum, 2004) p. 95