Visibility is a trap.
MICHEL FOUCAULTEverything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.
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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 language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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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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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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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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