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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

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
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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Beginning Feeling Inspirational Life Myself Necessary Success
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Death Heaven Man Secret Tragedy Truth
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Deep Discover Philosophy
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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End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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 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
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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Existence Justice Philosophy
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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Book Myself Necessary Possible Word Writing
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
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
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Body Instrument Soul Spiritual
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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People Religion Spirit World
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
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
It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
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Existence Illusion Philosophy Reality Soul Spiritual Wrong
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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Justice Law Philosophy
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
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age Philosophy
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
Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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Death Destruction Empty Life Philosophy Word
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Comfortable Difference Need Pleasant Wealth

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