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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.

Michel Foucault

The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
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
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
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
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Existence Illusion Philosophy Reality Soul Spiritual Wrong
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
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
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner 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
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
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
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
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right

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