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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.

Michel Foucault

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.
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Deep People Philosophy
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
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
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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Crime Horror Punishment
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
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Education People Serve
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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Justice Law Philosophy
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
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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Myself Person Writing
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
Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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Death Destruction Empty Life Philosophy Word
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People

Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.

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