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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

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Death Heaven Man Secret Tragedy Truth
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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Myself Person Writing
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
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
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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Bad Dangerous Myself
Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
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People Religion Spirit World
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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Easy End History Invention Man Ourselves Philosophy
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
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.
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Deep People Philosophy
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People
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
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
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
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
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
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 must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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Comfortable Difference Need Pleasant Wealth
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
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
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View

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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