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

Michel Foucault

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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Death Destruction Empty Life Philosophy Word
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
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
Where there is power, there is resistance.
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One Liner Power Resistance
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age Philosophy
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
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
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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End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right
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
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Body Instrument Soul Spiritual
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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Deep Fight Philosophy Sad Thinking

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