As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIt 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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Visibility is a trap.
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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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.
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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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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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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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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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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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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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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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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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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