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 FOUCAULTMaybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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 FOUCAULTYou 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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTVisibility is a trap.
MICHEL FOUCAULTEverything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDeath left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIslam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDo not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
MICHEL FOUCAULTMadness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhere there is power, there is resistance.
MICHEL FOUCAULTLife itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
MICHEL FOUCAULTAs the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
MICHEL FOUCAULTSchools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
MICHEL FOUCAULT