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

Michel Foucault

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
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
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
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
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
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
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
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People
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
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
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

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