Michel Foucault Quotes

I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Feeling Myself Philosophy
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Growth Myself Philosophy
It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Existence Illusion Philosophy Reality Soul Spiritual Wrong
It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Crime Horror Punishment
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

God Imagination Kill Live Man Philosophy Yourself
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Education People Serve
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Death Heaven Man Secret Tragedy Truth
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

Deep Human Nature Necessary Secret
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep People Philosophy
Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Philosophy
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Life Philosophy Word
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 FOUCAULT

Light Mad Punishment Reality Truth Virtue
Government is the right disposition of things.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Government One Liner Right
The individual is the product of power.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Individual One Liner Power
Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Dangerous Innocent
This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Knowledge Philosophy
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.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep God Human Mad Philosophy Reason Religious View
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Desire Man Nature
Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
MICHEL FOUCAULT

Deep Discover Philosophy

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