As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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.
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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Visibility is a trap.
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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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