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 FOUCAULTI 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.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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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 no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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Visibility is a trap.
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