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The individual is the product of power.

Michel Foucault

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep People Philosophy
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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Existence Justice Philosophy
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
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
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
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
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 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
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
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Age Philosophy
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Comfortable Difference Need Pleasant Wealth
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
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 court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Justice Law Philosophy
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People

The individual is the product of power.

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