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 FOUCAULTIslam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
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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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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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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 court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Visibility is a trap.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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