Visibility is a trap.
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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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The individual is the product of power.
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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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