In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhat desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.
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I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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