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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.

Michel Foucault

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Growth Myself Philosophy
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
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Philosophy
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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Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth
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
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age Philosophy
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
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
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People
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
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Deep Discover Philosophy
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
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep People Philosophy

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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