Visibility is a trap.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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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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The individual is the product of power.
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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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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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