The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
MICHEL FOUCAULTGovernment is the right disposition of things.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Visibility is a trap.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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