Visibility is a trap.
MICHEL FOUCAULTVisibility is a trap.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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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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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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