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From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.
Michel Foucault
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Michel Foucault
Age: 57 †
Born: 1926
Born: October 15
Died: 1984
Died: June 26
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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.
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It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent to criticise and attack them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.
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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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If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would come spend a weekend, a week, or a month in pleasure, under drugs perhaps, in order to disappear afterward, as if erased.
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The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.
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Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse.
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If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that man would be erased, like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before
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Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.
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I 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.
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There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.
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There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals.
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We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them.
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The soul is the prison of the body.
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Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
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