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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

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
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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Dangerous Innocent
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Deep Discover Philosophy
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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Deep Desire Man Nature
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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Justice Law Philosophy
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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Feeling Myself 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.
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Discover Hide Himself Investment Man Secret Truth
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
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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Knowledge Philosophy
The individual is the product of power.
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Individual One Liner Power
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Language Mad Reason
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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Easy End History Invention Man Ourselves Philosophy
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Education People Serve
The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
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Discover Freedom Liberty
Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.
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People Religion Spirit World
The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
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Deep End Game

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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