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

Michel Foucault

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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
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
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
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Deep Discover Philosophy
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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Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth
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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People Religion Spirit World
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
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
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.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
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 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
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
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
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
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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Deep People Philosophy
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don’t imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
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God Imagination Kill Live Man Philosophy Yourself
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
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
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

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