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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI 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.
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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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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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.
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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