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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTJustice 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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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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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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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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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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