Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDo not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
MICHEL FOUCAULTFrom the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
MICHEL FOUCAULTAs the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWith 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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDo not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWe are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWe must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDeath left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI 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 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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTGovernment is the right disposition of things.
MICHEL FOUCAULTVisibility is a trap.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIslam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
MICHEL FOUCAULT