The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
MICHEL FOUCAULT
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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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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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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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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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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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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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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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