As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Visibility is a trap.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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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 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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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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.
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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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