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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.

Michel Foucault

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
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game
There is no glory in punishing.
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Glory One Liner Punishment
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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Adventure Deep Dream Place
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
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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Death Heaven Man Secret Tragedy 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
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
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
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Power Sex Thinking
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
Where there is power, there is resistance.
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One Liner Power Resistance

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