Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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