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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

Michel Foucault

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Body Instrument Soul Spiritual
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Death Destruction Empty Life Philosophy Word
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
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Dangerous Innocent
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Language Mad Reason
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
Government is the right disposition of things.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Government One Liner Right
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
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
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
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

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

Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Growth Myself Philosophy
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Myself Person Writing
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

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