Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDo not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
-
-
We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
Government is the right disposition of things.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
Visibility is a trap.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.
MICHEL FOUCAULT -
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
MICHEL FOUCAULT