The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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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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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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