It’s amazing how people like judging.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWith 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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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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 don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Visibility is a trap.
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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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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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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 don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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