It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
MICHEL FOUCAULTAs the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
-
-
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
The individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
It’s amazing how people like judging.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
Where there is power, there is resistance.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
Government is the right disposition of things.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
Visibility is a trap.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
MICHEL FOUCAULT