Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
MICHEL FOUCAULTVisibility is a trap.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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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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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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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Visibility is a trap.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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