Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Visibility is a trap.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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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.
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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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