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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDo not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.
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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Visibility is a trap.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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The individual is the product of power.
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