The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIt’s amazing how people like judging.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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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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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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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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