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People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.

Michel Foucault

Where there is power, there is resistance.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

One Liner Power Resistance
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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Death Destruction Empty Life Philosophy Word
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Language Mad Reason
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

God Imagination Kill Live Man Philosophy Yourself
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
I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Absence Myself Problem
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Comfortable Difference Need Pleasant Wealth
There is no glory in punishing.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Glory One Liner Punishment
People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep People Philosophy
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
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Philosophy
I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Book Myself Necessary Possible Word Writing
Government is the right disposition of things.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Government One Liner Right
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep End Game

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.

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