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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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 write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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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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The individual is the product of power.
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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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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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Visibility is a trap.
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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
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