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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIt’s amazing how people like judging.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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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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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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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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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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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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.
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