Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIt’s amazing how people like judging.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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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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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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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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