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

Michel Foucault

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
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
Where there is power, there is resistance.
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One Liner Power Resistance
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
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
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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Myself Person Writing
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
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
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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Light Mad Punishment Reality Truth Virtue
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Education People Serve
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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End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right
Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
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Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret
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

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

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