Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
MICHEL FOUCAULTGovernment is the right disposition of things.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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The individual is the product of power.
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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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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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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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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.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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