In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
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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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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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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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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The individual is the product of power.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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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 ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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