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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 language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
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
From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.
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Deep God Human Mad Philosophy Reason Religious View
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Body Instrument Soul Spiritual
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
You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don’t imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
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God Imagination Kill Live Man Philosophy Yourself
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
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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Easy End History Invention Man Ourselves Philosophy
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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
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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Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth

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