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I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

Michel Foucault

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Justice Law Philosophy
Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

People Religion Spirit World
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Myself Philosophy Religious
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Growth Myself Philosophy
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Discover Freedom Liberty
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Easy End History Invention Man Ourselves 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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Beginning Feeling Inspirational Life Myself Necessary Success
I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Absence Myself Problem
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Death Destruction Empty Life Philosophy Word
The individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Individual One Liner Power
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
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Discover Philosophy
Visibility is a trap.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

One Liner Trap View
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right
It’s amazing how people like judging.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

One Liner People

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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