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.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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The individual is the product of power.
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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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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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 must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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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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Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
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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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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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