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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.

Michel Foucault

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Body Instrument Soul Spiritual
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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Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret
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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Deep People Philosophy
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Death Heaven Man Secret Tragedy Truth
Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.
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Light Mad Punishment Reality Truth Virtue
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Deep Discover Philosophy
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
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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Death Destruction Empty Life Philosophy Word
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
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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People Religion Spirit World
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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Beginning Feeling Inspirational Life Myself Necessary Success
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.

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