The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
MICHEL FOUCAULTFrom the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Visibility is a trap.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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