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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTGovernment is the right disposition of things.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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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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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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