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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.

Michel Foucault

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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Death Destruction Empty Life Philosophy Word
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Comfortable Difference Need Pleasant Wealth
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Deep Discover Philosophy
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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Crime Horror Punishment
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.
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End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
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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Justice Law Philosophy

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