It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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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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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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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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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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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