Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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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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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It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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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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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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Visibility is a trap.
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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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We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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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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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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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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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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