This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIt’s amazing how people like judging.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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 not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.
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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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Visibility is a trap.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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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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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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