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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.

Michel Foucault

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
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
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
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
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Comfortable Difference Need Pleasant Wealth
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
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
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
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
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
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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Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret
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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Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth

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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