Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
MICHEL FOUCAULTEverything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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Visibility is a trap.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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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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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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