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There is no glory in punishing.

Michel Foucault

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
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
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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Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret
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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End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right
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.
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Beginning Feeling Inspirational Life Myself Necessary Success
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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Book Myself Necessary Possible Word Writing
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Education People Serve
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
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
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
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
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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Existence Justice Philosophy
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Dangerous Innocent
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Easy End History Invention Man Ourselves Philosophy

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