Michel Foucault Quotes

I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.

We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.

I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

Visibility is a trap.

The ‘Enlightenment, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

It is meaningless to speak in the name of – or against – Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

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

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.

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.