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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

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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God Imagination Kill Live Man Philosophy Yourself
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
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
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
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Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret
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
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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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Absence Myself Problem
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
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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Light Mad Punishment Reality Truth Virtue
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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Deep Fight Philosophy Sad Thinking
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

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