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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe individual is the product of power.
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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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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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The individual is the product of power.
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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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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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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Visibility is a trap.
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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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