Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
MICHEL FOUCAULTMy point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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The individual is the product of power.
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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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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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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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