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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

Michel Foucault

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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Crime Horror Punishment
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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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Myself Person Writing
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
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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Book Myself Necessary Possible Word Writing
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
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
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
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
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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Adventure Deep Dream Place
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
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

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