The individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDo not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
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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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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.
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It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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