Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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The individual is the product of power.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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