There is no glory in punishing.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDeath left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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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’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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