On learning

learning to swim or learning a foreign language means composing the singular points of one’s own body or one’s own language with those of another shape or element, which tears us apart but also propels us into a hitherto unknown and unheard-of world of problems. To what are we dedicated if not to those problems which demand the very transformation of our body and our language?

an infinite learning, is of a different nature to knowledge… a transcendent exercise liberated from any common sense.

G. Deleuze