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Gilles Deleuze on philosophy, art and science
“If we can create philosophies, art and science, then this tells us that thought is productive. If we understand the power that drives this production, then we will be able to maximize our creativity, our life and our future.
Science may give consistent descriptions of the actual world, such as the things we observe as ‘facts’ or ‘states of affairs,’ but philosophy has the power to understand the virtual world. This is not the world as it is, but the world beyond any scientific observation or experience: the very possibility of life… Life is difference, the power to think differently, to become different and to create differences.
If we want to know what something (such as art, science, or philosophy) is, then we can ask how it serves life…The problem today is that when we ask what art or philosophy are, we tend to feel they should serve some everyday function: making us better managers or communicators. We fail to see that the purpose and force of art and philosophy goes beyond what life is to what it might become.”
“If we can create philosophies, art and science, then this tells us that thought is productive. If we understand the power that drives this production, then we will be able to maximize our creativity, our life and our future.
Science may give consistent descriptions of the actual world, such as the things we observe as ‘facts’ or ‘states of affairs,’ but philosophy has the power to understand the virtual world. This is not the world as it is, but the world beyond any scientific observation or experience: the very possibility of life… Life is difference, the power to think differently, to become different and to create differences.
If we want to know what something (such as art, science, or philosophy) is, then we can ask how it serves life…The problem today is that when we ask what art or philosophy are, we tend to feel they should serve some everyday function: making us better managers or communicators. We fail to see that the purpose and force of art and philosophy goes beyond what life is to what it might become.”
— Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (1925-1995) (tnx montycantsin)
