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.
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.
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Visibility is a trap.
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It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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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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