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.
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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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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’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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