The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
MICHEL FOUCAULTLife itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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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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You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don’t imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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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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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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