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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe individual is the product of power.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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The individual is the product of power.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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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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You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don’t imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
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