The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
MICHEL FOUCAULTAs the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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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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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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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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