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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.

Michel Foucault

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Deep Discover Philosophy
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
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
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
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
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
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
Madness 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.
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Light Mad Punishment Reality Truth Virtue
Where there is power, there is resistance.
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One Liner Power Resistance
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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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Easy End History Invention Man Ourselves Philosophy
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Education People Serve

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.

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