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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.

Michel Foucault

We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself.
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Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
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
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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Absence Myself Problem
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
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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Deep People 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
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
Where there is power, there is resistance.
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One Liner Power Resistance
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy

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