We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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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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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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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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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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From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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