It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDeath 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.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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There is no glory in punishing.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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