As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
MICHEL FOUCAULTLife itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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The individual is the product of power.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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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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