Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
MICHEL FOUCAULTYou 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.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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The individual is the product of power.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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