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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

Michel Foucault

From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Comfortable Difference Need Pleasant Wealth
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Myself Philosophy Religious
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Desire Man Nature
Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

People Religion Spirit World
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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Adventure Deep Dream Place
Where there is power, there is resistance.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

One Liner Power Resistance
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Age Philosophy
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Justice Law Philosophy
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

God Imagination Kill Live Man Philosophy Yourself
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Existence Illusion Philosophy Reality Soul Spiritual Wrong
Visibility is a trap.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

One Liner Trap View
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Philosophy
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Feeling Myself Philosophy
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep God Human Mad Philosophy Reason Religious View
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Death Heaven Man Secret Tragedy Truth
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Light Mad Punishment Reality Truth Virtue
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Discover Freedom Liberty
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Easy End History Invention Man Ourselves Philosophy
Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Education People Serve
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Dangerous Innocent
The individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Individual One Liner Power
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Myself Person Writing
It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Crime Horror Punishment
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Power Sex Thinking
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Reason Speak Truth

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