Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Visibility is a trap.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself.
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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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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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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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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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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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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