Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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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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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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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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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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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.
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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.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
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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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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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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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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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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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