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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT
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.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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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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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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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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The individual is the product of power.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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Visibility is a trap.
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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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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
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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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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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