The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhere there is power, there is resistance.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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 ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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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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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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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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The individual is the product of power.
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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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