Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
MICHEL FOUCAULTEverything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.
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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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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Visibility is a trap.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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The individual is the product of power.
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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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