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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

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Growth Myself Philosophy
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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Absence Myself Problem
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.
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Myself Philosophy Religious
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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Existence Illusion Philosophy Reality Soul Spiritual Wrong
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
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
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
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Body Instrument Soul Spiritual
Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
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Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret
It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Knowledge Reason Speak Truth
Government is the right disposition of things.
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Government One Liner Right
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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Deep Fight Philosophy Sad Thinking
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Life Philosophy Word
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

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