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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhat desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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