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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.

Michel Foucault

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.
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Easy End History Invention Man Ourselves Philosophy
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Education People Serve
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
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
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
Where there is power, there is resistance.
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One Liner Power Resistance
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
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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
It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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Crime Horror Punishment
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
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Comfortable Difference Need Pleasant Wealth
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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Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth

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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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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