As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
MICHEL FOUCAULTGovernment is the right disposition of things.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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The individual is the product of power.
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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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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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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.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Visibility is a trap.
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