In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
MICHEL FOUCAULTFrom a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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 language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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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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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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