Secret Quotes by Michel Foucault

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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 think I have in fact been situated in most of the squares on the political checkerboard, one after another and sometimes simultaneously: as anarchist, leftist, ostentatious or disguised Marxist, nihilist, explicit or secret anti-Marxist, technocrat in the service of Gaullism, new liberal and so on.

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Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is…

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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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It is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it; death…

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In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, man's dispute with madness was dramatic debate in which he confronted the secret powers of…

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What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to…

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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…

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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 punishment that certainly concerns the body itself: rationing of food, sexual deprivation, corporal punishment, solitary confinement … There remains, therefore, a trace of ‘torture’ in the modern mechanisms of criminal justice – a trace that has…

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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 bodies, govern our gestures, dictate our behaviors, etc... we should try to discover how it is that subjects are gradually, progressively, really and materially constituted through a multiplicity of organisms, forces, energies, materials, desires, thoughts, etc.…

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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 says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as…

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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 truth––was able to make what does not exist (madness, disease, delinquency, sexuality), nonetheless become something, something however that continues not to exist. That is to say, what I would like to show is not how an…

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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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