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 FOUCAULTModern 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 FOUCAULTWe are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThis knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
MICHEL FOUCAULTYou 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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTIt’s amazing how people like judging.
MICHEL FOUCAULTWhat desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
MICHEL FOUCAULTMy point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
MICHEL FOUCAULTNature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
MICHEL FOUCAULTGovernment is the right disposition of things.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThere is no glory in punishing.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
MICHEL FOUCAULTPeople know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.
MICHEL FOUCAULTJustice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
MICHEL FOUCAULTI 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.
MICHEL FOUCAULTDo not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
MICHEL FOUCAULT