I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe individual is the product of power.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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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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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Visibility is a trap.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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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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