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

Michel Foucault

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.
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Deep People Philosophy
It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
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Existence Illusion Philosophy Reality Soul Spiritual Wrong
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People
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
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
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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Deep Fight Philosophy Sad Thinking
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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People Religion Spirit World
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
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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End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
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

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