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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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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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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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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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