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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.

Michel Foucault

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
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
I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
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Absence Myself Problem
Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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Death Destruction Empty Life Philosophy Word
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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Myself Person Writing
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
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
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
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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Existence Justice Philosophy
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Body Instrument Soul Spiritual
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment

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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