It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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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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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 language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
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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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