I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.
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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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The individual is the product of power.
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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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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
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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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