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Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting (Michel Foucault Quotes)
... if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal, then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing (Michel Foucault Quotes)
As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end (Michel Foucault Quotes)
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty (Michel Foucault Quotes)
I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls (Michel Foucault Quotes)
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? (Michel Foucault Quotes)
One makes war to win, not because it’s just (Michel Foucault Quotes)
The images of madness are only dream and error, and if the sufferer who is blinded by them appeals to them, it is only to disappear with them in the annihilation to which they are fated (Michel Foucault Quotes)
In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears (Michel Foucault Quotes)
Delirium and dazzlement are in a relation which constitutes the essence of madness, exactly as truth and light, in their fundamental relation, constitute classical reason (Michel Foucault Quotes)
We must not understand it as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled (Michel Foucault Quotes)
What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made (Michel Foucault Quotes)
People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they’re smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then they cannot be forgiven. It is not the departure for pleasure that is unacceptable, it is waking up happy (Michel Foucault Quotes)
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn’t everyone’s life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life? (Michel Foucault Quotes)
The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them (Michel Foucault Quotes)
A critique does not consist in saying that things aren’t good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established and unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based... To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy (Michel Foucault Quotes)
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. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know where it will end (Michel Foucault Quotes)
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library (Michel Foucault Quotes)
Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It’s not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness (Michel Foucault Quotes)
Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history (Michel Foucault Quotes)
And now, if we try to assign a value, in and of itself, outside its relations to the dream and with error, to classical unreason, we must understand it not as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled (Michel Foucault Quotes)
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life (Michel Foucault Quotes)
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 (Michel Foucault Quotes)
Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society (Michel Foucault Quotes)
One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character (Michel Foucault Quotes)
When man deploys the arbitrary nature of his madness, he confronts the dark necessity of the world; the animal that haunts his nightmares and his nights of privation is his own nature, which will lay bare hell’s pitiless truth (Michel Foucault Quotes)
Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth (Michel Foucault Quotes)
Wars are no longer waged in the name of a sovereign who must be defended; they are waged on behalf of the existence of everyone; entire populations are mobilized for the purpose of wholesale slaughter in the name of life necessity: massacres have become vital (Michel Foucault Quotes)
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 (Michel Foucault Quotes)
... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it.... In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power (Michel Foucault Quotes)