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

Michel Foucault

We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
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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Easy End History Invention Man Ourselves Philosophy
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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
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
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Body Instrument Soul Spiritual
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
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
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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Adventure Deep Dream Place
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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Deep God Human Mad Philosophy Reason Religious View
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Education People Serve
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
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

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