As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
MICHEL FOUCAULTEverything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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 individual is the product of power.
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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 ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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From 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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
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