Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI 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.
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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Visibility is a trap.
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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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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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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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