The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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The individual is the product of power.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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Visibility is a trap.
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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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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