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.
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.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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 must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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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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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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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 language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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