Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Visibility is a trap.
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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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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.
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The individual is the product of power.
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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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