The individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhat desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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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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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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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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