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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.

Michel Foucault

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
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
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
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself 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 left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Death Heaven Man Secret Tragedy Truth
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
Where there is power, there is resistance.
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One Liner Power Resistance
Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
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People Religion Spirit World
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
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
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
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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God Imagination Kill Live Man Philosophy Yourself

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