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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.

Michel Foucault

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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Beginning Feeling Inspirational Life Myself Necessary Success
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth
In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Adventure Deep Dream Place
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Language Mad Reason
Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

People Religion Spirit World
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

God Imagination Kill Live Man Philosophy Yourself
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Justice Law Philosophy
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Myself Philosophy Religious
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Education People Serve
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Growth Myself Philosophy
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Philosophy
With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep God Human Mad Philosophy Reason Religious View
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Life Philosophy Word
There is no glory in punishing.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Glory One Liner Punishment
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Power Sex Thinking

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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