Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDo not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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The individual is the product of power.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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