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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhat desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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Visibility is a trap.
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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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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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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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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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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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