The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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 meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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The individual is the product of power.
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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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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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