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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.

Michel Foucault

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
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
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Deep Discover Philosophy
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
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
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
Where there is power, there is resistance.
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One Liner Power Resistance
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
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
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
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
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Justice Law Philosophy
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Existence Justice Philosophy

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