The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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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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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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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The individual is the product of power.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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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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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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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 language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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