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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.

Michel Foucault

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Desire Man Nature
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Myself Philosophy Religious
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Discover Philosophy
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Existence Illusion Philosophy Reality Soul Spiritual Wrong
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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Absence Myself Problem
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Power Sex Thinking
Where there is power, there is resistance.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

One Liner Power Resistance
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Comfortable Difference Need Pleasant Wealth
Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

People Religion Spirit World
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Death Heaven Man Secret Tragedy Truth
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
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Age Philosophy
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Language Mad Reason
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Beginning Feeling Inspirational Life Myself Necessary Success

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