The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDo not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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The individual is the product of power.
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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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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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