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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.

Michel Foucault

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Fight Philosophy Sad Thinking
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Discover Philosophy
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
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Myself Person Writing
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
It’s amazing how people like judging.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

One Liner People
The individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Individual One Liner Power
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Language Mad Reason
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Death Heaven Man Secret Tragedy Truth
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Life Philosophy Word
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Light Mad Punishment Reality Truth Virtue
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Philosophy
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Bad Dangerous Myself
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth
Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret

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