From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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