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

Michel Foucault

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
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
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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Book Myself Necessary Possible Word Writing
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Comfortable Difference Need Pleasant Wealth
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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End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right
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
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People
Where there is power, there is resistance.
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One Liner Power Resistance
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
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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Existence Illusion Philosophy Reality Soul Spiritual Wrong
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
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
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
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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Justice Law Philosophy
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
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Myself Person Writing
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
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
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Education People Serve

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

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