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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIt would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Visibility is a trap.
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With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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 individual is the product of power.
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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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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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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.
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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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