You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don’t imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
MICHEL FOUCAULTModern 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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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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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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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.
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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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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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The individual is the product of power.
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