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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

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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Adventure Deep Dream Place
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 don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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Book Myself Necessary Possible Word Writing
It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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Crime Horror Punishment
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
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Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Comfortable Difference Need Pleasant Wealth
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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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Deep God Human Mad Philosophy Reason Religious View
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
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy

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

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