It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
MICHEL FOUCAULT
Where there is power, there is resistance.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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Visibility is a trap.
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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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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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The individual is the product of power.
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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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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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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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