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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

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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Adventure Deep Dream Place
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
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
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
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
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
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
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Myself Person Writing
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
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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Light Mad Punishment Reality Truth Virtue
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
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
It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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Crime Horror Punishment
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
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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