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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.

Michel Foucault

Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
Where there is power, there is resistance.
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One Liner Power Resistance
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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Existence Justice Philosophy
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
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age Philosophy
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
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
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
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Deep Discover Philosophy
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Body Instrument Soul Spiritual
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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
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

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