Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
MICHEL FOUCAULTNature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
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The individual is the product of power.
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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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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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