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 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.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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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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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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