Where there is power, there is resistance.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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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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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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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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