As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
MICHEL FOUCAULTFrom a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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Visibility is a trap.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself.
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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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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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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
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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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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