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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTGovernment is the right disposition of things.
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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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The individual is the product of power.
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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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Visibility is a trap.
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