It’s amazing how people like judging.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDeath left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.
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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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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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