Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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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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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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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.
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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.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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