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Michel Foucault

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
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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Deep God Human Mad Philosophy Reason Religious View
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Comfortable Difference Need Pleasant Wealth
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
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
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
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
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
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
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
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
Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself.
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Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age Philosophy

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