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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.

Michel Foucault

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Growth Myself Philosophy
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Dangerous Innocent
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Existence Illusion Philosophy Reality Soul Spiritual Wrong
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep People Philosophy
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth
There is no glory in punishing.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Glory One Liner Punishment
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Body Instrument Soul Spiritual
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep God Human Mad Philosophy Reason Religious View
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Language Mad Reason
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Education People Serve
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Bad Dangerous Myself
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
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Easy End History Invention Man Ourselves 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
It’s amazing how people like judging.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

One Liner People
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Desire Man Nature

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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