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The individual is the product of power.

Michel Foucault

Visibility is a trap.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

One Liner Trap View
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
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age Philosophy
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge 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
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Existence Justice Philosophy
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Philosophy
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
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
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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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People Religion Spirit World
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
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

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