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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

Michel Foucault

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Fight Philosophy Sad Thinking
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Book Myself Necessary Possible Word Writing
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Life Philosophy Word
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Language Mad Reason
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Dangerous Innocent
It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Crime Horror Punishment
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Light Mad Punishment Reality Truth Virtue
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Death Heaven Man Secret Tragedy Truth
The individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Individual One Liner Power
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Justice Law Philosophy
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Comfortable Difference Need Pleasant Wealth
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Discover Freedom Liberty
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Education People Serve
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep People Philosophy

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