The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Visibility is a trap.
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In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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The individual is the product of power.
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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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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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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