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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWe are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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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.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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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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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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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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.
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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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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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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
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I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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