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Government is the right disposition of things.

Michel Foucault

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
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
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
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
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Adventure Deep Dream Place
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Education People Serve
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
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
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
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age Philosophy
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
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
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Myself Person Writing
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power

Government is the right disposition of things.

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