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There is no glory in punishing.

Michel Foucault

This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Philosophy
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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Deep Fight Philosophy Sad Thinking
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself Philosophy
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
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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People Religion Spirit World
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Death Heaven Man Secret Tragedy Truth
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.
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Deep People Philosophy
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Body Instrument Soul Spiritual
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
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
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Justice Law Philosophy
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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Absence Myself Problem
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
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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Light Mad Punishment Reality Truth Virtue

There is no glory in punishing.

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