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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

Michel Foucault

Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Dangerous Innocent
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Philosophy
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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Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth
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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Justice Law Philosophy
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
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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Absence Myself Problem
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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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Beginning Feeling Inspirational Life Myself Necessary Success
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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Light Mad Punishment Reality Truth Virtue
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Philosophy
Where there is power, there is resistance.
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One Liner Power Resistance
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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Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret
It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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Crime Horror Punishment
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason

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