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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 Foucault

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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Deep God Human Mad Philosophy Reason Religious View
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
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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Existence Justice Philosophy
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge Reason Speak 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
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
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
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
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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God Imagination Kill Live Man Philosophy Yourself
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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Easy End History Invention Man Ourselves Philosophy
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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People Religion Spirit World
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
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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Deep People 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
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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Absence Myself Problem

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.

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