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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

Michel Foucault

The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
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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Beginning Feeling Inspirational Life Myself Necessary Success
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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Light Mad Punishment Reality Truth Virtue
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
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
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
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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People Religion Spirit World
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age Philosophy
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
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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Existence Illusion Philosophy Reality Soul Spiritual Wrong
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
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
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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God Imagination Kill Live Man Philosophy Yourself
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy

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