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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

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
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
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People
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

Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth
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
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
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
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’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
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age Philosophy
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
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
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself

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