Something in the proliferations of immanence tends to overtake the vertical world, to reverse it, as if the hierarchy bred a particular anarchy, and the love of God, an internal atheism proper to it. Heresy is flirted with every time. And the Renaissance will tirelessly develop and extend this immanent world, which can be reconciled with transcendence only at the cost of threatening to inundate it anew.
Gilles Deleuze, “Zones of Immanence [1985],” in Two Regimes of Madness. Texts and Interviews 1975–1995 [2003], ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Ames Hodges and Mike Taormina (South Pasadena, CA: Semiotext(e), 2007), 267.