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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

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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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Death Destruction Empty Life Philosophy Word
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
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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Existence Illusion Philosophy Reality Soul Spiritual Wrong
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
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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God Imagination Kill Live Man Philosophy Yourself
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
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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Adventure Deep Dream Place
Where there is power, there is resistance.
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One Liner Power Resistance
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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Deep God Human Mad Philosophy Reason Religious View
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age 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.

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