This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDo 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.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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The individual is the product of power.
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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.
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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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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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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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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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