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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.

Michel Foucault

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
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
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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Death Destruction Empty Life Philosophy Word
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.
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End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
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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Justice Law Philosophy
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
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
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
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
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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Existence Justice Philosophy

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