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.
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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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The individual is the product of power.
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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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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don’t imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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