I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“The chronicle of a man, the account of his life, his historiography, written as he lived out his life formed part of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“To imagine writing as absence seems to be a simple repetition, in transcendental terms, of both the religious principle of the inalterable… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Aren't you sure of what you're saying? Are you going to change yet again, shift your position according to the questions that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“As soon as you start writing, even if it is under your real name, you start to function as somebody slightly different,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Storytellers continue their narratives late into the night to forestall death and to delay the inevitable moment when everyone must fall silent.… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character. — Michel Foucault Copy Share
The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that contains it:… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional element of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. — Michel Foucault Copy Share
Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“It was a matter of showing by what conjunctions a whole set of practices-- from the moment they became coordinated with a regime of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“The preferred medications were those that forestalled corruption. We know 'as a result of more than three thousand years of experience that Myrrh and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in Eastern European… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
![“[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and that everyone in the street would be able to see that he had written a book. This is the obscure desire harboured by everyone who writes. It is true that the first…” quote by Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1bb/michel-foucault-1134_able_raymond-roussel-said-that-after-his-firs_1123161.jpg)
