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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

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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Adventure Deep Dream Place
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
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
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
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Justice Law Philosophy
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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Easy End History Invention Man Ourselves Philosophy
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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Deep People 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.
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Myself Person Writing
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People
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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Existence Illusion Philosophy Reality Soul Spiritual Wrong
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Deep Discover Philosophy
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
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Death Heaven Man Secret Tragedy Truth
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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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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret

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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