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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

Michel Foucault

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People
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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People Religion Spirit World
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
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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Absence Myself Problem
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself.
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Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth
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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Death Destruction Empty Life Philosophy Word
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Age Philosophy
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Reason Speak Truth

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