Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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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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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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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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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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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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The individual is the product of power.
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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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