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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.

Michel Foucault

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Body Instrument Soul Spiritual
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
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
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
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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Deep Fight Philosophy Sad Thinking
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age 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
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
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Language Mad Reason
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Death Heaven Man Secret Tragedy Truth
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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Existence Illusion Philosophy Reality Soul Spiritual Wrong

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