Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
MICHEL FOUCAULT
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.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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The individual is the product of power.
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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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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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