The individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULTMaybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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Visibility is a trap.
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Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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