The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
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From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
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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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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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Government is the right disposition of things.
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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
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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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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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From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.
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My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
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This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
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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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We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
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