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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.

Michel Foucault

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Death Heaven Man Secret Tragedy Truth
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
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Body Instrument Soul Spiritual
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
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.
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Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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Existence Justice Philosophy
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
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
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
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

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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