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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.

Michel Foucault

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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Deep God Human Mad Philosophy Reason Religious View
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age Philosophy
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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Crime Horror Punishment
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Death Heaven Man Secret Tragedy Truth
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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Justice Law Philosophy
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
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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Deep Fight Philosophy Sad Thinking
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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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Beginning Feeling Inspirational Life Myself Necessary Success
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
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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Absence Myself Problem
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy

This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.

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