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

Michel Foucault

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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Adventure Deep Dream Place
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. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
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Myself Person Writing
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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Crime Horror Punishment
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Deep Discover Philosophy
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.
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Deep God Human Mad Philosophy Reason Religious View
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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Easy End History Invention Man Ourselves Philosophy
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
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
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
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Philosophy
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
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
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age Philosophy
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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Absence Myself Problem
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
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
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
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
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious

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