The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
MICHEL FOUCAULTMy point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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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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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
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In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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The individual is the product of power.
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