The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political willof others; it is, through the analyses that he does in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians… — 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
I think I have in fact been situated in most of the squares on the political checkerboard, one after another and sometimes… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians"… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students. When people start thinking of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
[T]ruly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is… — 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
A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
We demand that sex speak the truth and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Man is a thinking being. The way he thinks is related to society, politics, economics, and history and is also related to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and… — 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
There are moments in life where the question of knowing whether one might think otherwise than one thinks and perceive otherwise than… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The way people really think is not adequately analyzed by the universal categories of logic. Between social history and formal analyses of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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