Visibility is a trap.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
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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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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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