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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

Michel Foucault

The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
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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Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
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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Existence Justice Philosophy
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge 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
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
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Justice Law Philosophy
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
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
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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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Deep People Philosophy
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View

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