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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.

Michel Foucault

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
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
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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Myself Person Writing
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
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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Absence Myself Problem
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
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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Adventure Deep Dream Place
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age Philosophy
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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Book Myself Necessary Possible Word Writing
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Education People Serve
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy

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