The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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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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 individual is the product of power.
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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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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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