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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTMy point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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The individual is the product of power.
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Visibility is a trap.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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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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