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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

Michel Foucault

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
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Death Heaven Man Secret Tragedy Truth
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.
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End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
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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Existence Justice Philosophy
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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Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret
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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Existence Illusion Philosophy Reality Soul Spiritual Wrong
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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.
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Deep God Human Mad Philosophy Reason Religious View
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age 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.
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God Imagination Kill Live Man Philosophy Yourself
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
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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Deep Fight Philosophy Sad Thinking
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
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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Light Mad Punishment Reality Truth Virtue
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
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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Book Myself Necessary Possible Word Writing
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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Myself Person Writing
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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Death Destruction Empty Life Philosophy Word
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game

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