I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
MICHEL FOUCAULTKnowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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The individual is the product of power.
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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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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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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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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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Visibility is a trap.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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