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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.

Michel Foucault

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
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Deep Discover Philosophy
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
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
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
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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Deep People Philosophy
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
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
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
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
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
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

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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