Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThere is no glory in punishing.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
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Visibility is a trap.
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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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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’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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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