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

Michel Foucault

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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Adventure Deep Dream Place
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Feeling Myself Philosophy
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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Death Destruction Empty Life Philosophy Word
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Comfortable Difference Need Pleasant Wealth
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right
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
Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself.
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Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth
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
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Deep Discover Philosophy
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
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.
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Book Myself Necessary Possible Word Writing
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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Easy End History Invention Man Ourselves Philosophy
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Growth Myself Philosophy

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

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