The individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhere there is power, there is resistance.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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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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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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Visibility is a trap.
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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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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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There is no glory in punishing.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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