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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You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don’t imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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The individual is the product of power.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
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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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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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Visibility is a trap.
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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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