The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhere there is power, there is resistance.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
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Visibility is a trap.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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The individual is the product of power.
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In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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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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