The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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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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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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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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The individual is the product of power.
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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.
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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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Visibility is a trap.
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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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