Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
MICHEL FOUCAULT
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.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Visibility is a trap.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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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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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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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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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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