Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
MICHEL FOUCAULTYou 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.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.
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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Visibility is a trap.
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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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The individual is the product of power.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
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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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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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