The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
MICHEL FOUCAULTMadness 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.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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