Visibility is a trap.
MICHEL FOUCAULTPeople know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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The individual is the product of power.
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From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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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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