Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
MICHEL FOUCAULTFrom the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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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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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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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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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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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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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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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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