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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

Michel Foucault

From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Comfortable Difference Need Pleasant Wealth
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Justice Law Philosophy
The individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Individual One Liner Power
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Easy End History Invention Man Ourselves 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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Light Mad Punishment Reality Truth Virtue
It’s amazing how people like judging.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

One Liner People
Visibility is a trap.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

One Liner Trap View
Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

People Religion Spirit World
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Philosophy
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Existence Justice Philosophy
Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Discover Philosophy
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Death Heaven Man Secret Tragedy Truth
I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Absence Myself Problem
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Beginning Feeling Inspirational Life Myself Necessary Success

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