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

Michel Foucault

I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Myself Philosophy Religious
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Philosophy
I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Absence Myself Problem
In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Adventure Deep Dream Place
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge 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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

End Humanity Life Live Mistake Place Quite Right
Where there is power, there is resistance.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Myself Person Writing
Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

People Religion Spirit World
We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Power Sex Thinking
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Justice Law Philosophy
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Language Mad Reason
The individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Individual One Liner Power
Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Desire Man Nature
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Discover Freedom Liberty

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