My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
MICHEL FOUCAULTMy point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
MICHEL FOUCAULTPeople 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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDeath 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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI 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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIn civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
MICHEL FOUCAULTAs the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThis knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
MICHEL FOUCAULTGovernment is the right disposition of things.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIt’s amazing how people like judging.
MICHEL FOUCAULTEverything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhere there is power, there is resistance.
MICHEL FOUCAULTFrom a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThere is no glory in punishing.
MICHEL FOUCAULTFrom the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
MICHEL FOUCAULT