Reason Quotes by Michel Foucault

11 Reason quotes by Michel Foucault

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Michel Foucault’s critical eye turns toward Reason in a compact set of eleven lines. The excerpts hint at his broader challenge to power structures while staying grounded in logical analysis.

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The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

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Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.

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

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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness

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Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that…

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If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that…

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And now, if we try to assign a value, in and of itself, outside its relations to the dream and with error,…

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The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue,…

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[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and…

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Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your…

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In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period,…

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One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

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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:…

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“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional element of…

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

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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…

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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…

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“It was a matter of showing by what conjunctions a whole set of practices-- from the moment they became coordinated with a regime of…

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“The preferred medications were those that forestalled corruption. We know 'as a result of more than three thousand years of experience that Myrrh and…

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“The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than…

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“Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with…

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Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

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Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

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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…

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Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as…

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