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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.

Michel Foucault

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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Death Destruction Empty Life Philosophy Word
You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don’t imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
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God Imagination Kill Live Man Philosophy Yourself
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
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Myself Person Writing
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Education People Serve
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
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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Justice Law Philosophy
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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Existence Illusion Philosophy Reality Soul Spiritual Wrong
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age Philosophy
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Deep Discover Philosophy
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy

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