I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
MICHEL FOUCAULTKnowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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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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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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The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Visibility is a trap.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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