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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.

Michel Foucault

This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Knowledge Philosophy
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
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
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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Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret
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
It’s amazing how people like judging.
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One Liner People
Visibility is a trap.
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One Liner Trap View
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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Book Myself Necessary Possible Word Writing
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
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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Existence Justice Philosophy
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Deep Discover Philosophy
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Age Philosophy
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
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Growth Myself Philosophy
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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End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right
Where there is power, there is resistance.
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One Liner Power Resistance
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
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
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
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don’t imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
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God Imagination Kill Live Man Philosophy Yourself
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
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
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

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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