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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

Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
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People Religion Spirit World
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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Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret
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
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age Philosophy
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
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
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
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.
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Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth
Where there is power, there is resistance.
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One Liner Power Resistance
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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Crime Horror Punishment

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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