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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

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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Light Mad Punishment Reality Truth Virtue
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
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
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
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
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
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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Existence Justice Philosophy
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
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
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
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
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
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy

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