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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.

Michel Foucault

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
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
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Deep Fight Philosophy Sad Thinking
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
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.
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End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
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
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
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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Death Destruction Empty Life Philosophy Word
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
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
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
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

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