Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.
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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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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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
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I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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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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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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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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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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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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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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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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