Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
MICHEL FOUCAULTMaybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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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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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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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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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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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